Works of the great Enlightenment thinkers from Locke to Kant to Hegel influenced all manner of liberals, socialists and anarchists.

The Wealth of Nations' spelled out the optimal way for a country to engender the greatest economic happiness for its citizens ...

Just recently, Shoshana Liessmann and Antje Herzog wrote about Immanuel Kant in honor of his 300 th birthday and explained how the celebrated “revolutionary thinker and one of the most prominent ...

Review: David Graeber Argues that the Enlightenment Was Heavily Influenced by Pirates The late anthropologist maintains that the pirate culture of Madagascar was a major influence on thinkers like ...

The early Enlightenment thinkers like French naturalist George Louis de Buffon, posed naturalistic explanations for human variability, influenced most European intellectuals.

In his new book, Ian Shapiro defends the Enlightenment principles of science and reasoned thinking against philosophical assaults from the right and left.

Such pronouncements were not out of step with the views of many other Enlightenment thinkers. To continue reading for FREE, please sign in.