One of the Enlightenment’s great innovations, laissez-faire economics, systematized in Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, was promoted on claims that it transcended national borders and was an ...

From a modern perspective the Enlightenment seems a huge leap into the unknown. To those who lived through it, like Sir Walter Scott, it was ‘like those who drift down the stream of a deep and ...

The term "Enlightenment," rooted in an intellectual skepticism to traditional beliefs and dogmas, denotes an "illumined" contrast to the supposed dark and superstitious character of the Middle Ages.

I screen guests at least that well. But I didn't know he was going to offer a thesis so in line with the one that I've been pushing myself lately--that when it comes to history, liberals are wedded to ...

The Enlightenment. By Ritchie Robertson.Allen Lane; 1,008 pages; £40. To be published in America by Harper in February; $45. IN SEPTEMBER THE University of Edinburgh expunged the name of David ...

Enjoy expert talks and explore key sites from the Scottish Enlightenment, a period of incredible scientific and intellectual creativity in the 18th and early 19th centuries. During that time ...

Hutton believed, like other Enlightenment thinkers, that the findings of science, and not tradition, should be the basis of the laws of the universe: that any theory should be established by ...

Yet while the names most remembered from the Enlightenment era – Locke, Newton, Voltaire, Kant, Paine – belong to men, there were many women who participated in and influenced the intellectual ...