The Guardian

The Enlightenment by Roy Porter

Just over two hundred years ago, the German philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote an essay entitled 'Was ist Aufklärung?' ('What is Enlightenment?'). For Kant ...
HuffPost

What Exactly Is Enlightenment?

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The Guardian

The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters by Anthony Pagden – review

In 1783, Johann Friedrich Zöllner, a theologian, posed a question that we are in some ways no nearer to answering. "What", he asked in a footnote to an essay on civil marriages, "is enlightenment?" ...
mext.go

（7）Civilization and Enlightenment and Schools for Western Learning

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New Republic

What do we owe the Enlightenment?

Wherever we look today in academia, scholars are rushing to defend the Enlightenment ideas of political and individual liberty, human rights, faith in scientific reason, secularism, and the freedom of ...
Mises Institute

The Cost of the Enlightenment

It is broadly accepted that out of Enlightenment thinking came many of the “goods” of our society; goods economic, political, and social. Goods ranging from the material wealth and the technology we ...
The Conversation

A New Democratic Enlightenment?

John Keane receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC). The disintegration of Europe that the world is witnessing, and in some quarters beginning to fear, no doubt has multiple causes ...