The Enlightenment legacy can be seen all around us: individualism, international commerce and trade, moral cosmopolitanism, freedom of the press and a culture of publicity, technological modernity ...

CULTURE CLUB/GETTY IMAGES The Enlightenment began not only with books and pamphlets, but with an earthquake. In 1755, an earthquake flattened Lisbon, set it aflame, and then caused a massive ...

It may sound paradoxical, but what if the path to enlightenment begins with accepting our own insignificance? What if the ...

Enthusiasts like to make this claim, and even use the term “second Enlightenment” to describe what A.I. may ultimately ...

Abraham Loeb has theorized that the recently discovered interstellar object 3I/ATLAS could be alien technology, but ASU's Planetarium Director Kenneth Carrell believes it is more likely to be a small ...

Change, as represented by the Enlightenment, posed a threat to their influence, which depended upon their mastery of classical Greek learning and language.

A horizontal approach involves more than simply sharing information; it’s about instilling values and objectives foundational ...

What is enlightenment, and where, when and how did it happen? One traditional answer is that the Enlightenment with a capital “E” was part of the making of the modern world, and that it ...

If one takes into account the astonishing events of the current Trump administration and a Republican Congress that is ...

An intellectual movement which began in England in the seventeenth century, but then spread to have eventual influence over all sections of the world. The term "Enlightenment," rooted in an ...

If the Enlightenment did anything, it was only to accelerate a process that had been ongoing for centuries. 3. The modern age doesn't look so hot when you count abortion.

I don’t. I like and respect Mr. Pinker, Mr. Brooks and others in their camp. But Enlightenment philosophy didn’t achieve a fraction of the good they claim, and it has done much harm.