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 ...

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 ...

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 Great Divide” explores how ideas that ... their wobbliness of mind. Though Enlightenment thinkers trumpeted liberty for all rational persons, few argued that women should be granted ...

Unalienable rights and self-evident truths are the two core ideas of the American founding. Expand the number of core ideas under consideration to three and you get unalienable rights, self-evident ...

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 ...

Whatmore profiles eight thinkers who drove the 18th-century Enlightenment and who (in different ... wrong If it wasn’t Britain collapsing, its great rival France was. The French Revolution ...