the last great Enlightenment thinker. Born in Austria-Hungary in 1856 and dying in London in 1939, Freud is commonly known as the originator of the idea of the unconscious mind. However, the idea can ...

Many great figures of philosophy who have been ... that makes Hegel—the critic of progress and secularism—an Enlightenment thinker. Like Hegel, Nietzsche was skeptical of the Enlightenment ...

Hutton believed, like other Enlightenment thinkers, that the findings of science ... Born in Ninewells, Berwickshire, David Hume was one of the greatest philosophers the world has ever known.

1. The Enlightenment wasn’t restricted to France. Despite many of the Enlightenment’s most influential thinkers—René Descartes, M. de Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the Baron de ...

Aleppo and Edinburgh became unlikely partners, connecting worlds through trade, science and the exchange of ideas ...

Voltaire and his Enlightenment confrères ... It shows the great father and mother of chemistry not as a male thinker and a female muse but as the married, working couple they were.

The Enlightenment saw the birth of ideas like freedom, equality and human rights. But how did its thinkers come to terms with the highly profitable exploitation of non-European peoples?

The book’s opening section examines philosophical critiques of the Enlightenment project from thinkers who represent both the ideological ... they would have been laughed out of the room. In 1985, the ...

This list of august thinkers and writers should probably convince you that there is some connection between enforced boredom and great ideas. But if you’re more scientifically minded ...