But the most fruitful may be to view them as the latest representatives of an old tradition of opposition to the 18th-century Enlightenment and its legacy to our world. The Enlightenment legacy ...

The specific form of ignorance championed today by the most skilled and cynical academic representatives of ... by the science and philosophy of the Enlightenment, who believed in progress ...

The Enlightenment, along with its representative figures like David Hume (1711–1776), is interwoven with the legacies of colonisation, of forced dispossession, of slavery and slave trading ...

Földényi makes Hegel his regal Enlightenment representative. And Hegel had indeed argued that universal history, when viewed philosophically, is rational: “Whoever looks at the world ...

A lot of people are selling Enlightenment these days. After the Brexit vote and the election of President Trump, David Brooks published a paean to the “Enlightenment project,” declaring it ...

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The Tytler quote used by Reagan is probably apocryphal, but it’s fair to say it’s representative of 18th-century opinion. Another Enlightenment man cited by Romney, John Adams, believed that ...

The Enlightenment is having a renaissance, of sorts. A handful of centrist and conservative writers have reclaimed the 17 th-and 18 th-century intellectual movement as a response to nationalism ...