John Locke was one of the most influential thinkers of the Enlightenment. He is known as the "father of liberalism" for his contributions to the field. Here are some quotes by him on life: “The most ...

Liberalism is at a turning point. The rise of the far right in Western democracies has challenged liberal values and ...

Châtelet’s scientific contributions were appreciated by some, then forgotten by all. But redeeming her as a mind shouldn’t undermine her as a woman.

He described contemporary notions of rights and religious freedom as products of the “Enlightenment” and maintained that ...

Peter Brathwaite (with photographic partner Sam Baldock) More interesting is these artists’ suggestion that the Enlightenment, with its freedom thinkers from John Locke to Mary Wollstonecraft ...

“Gulliver’s Travels” had turned Swift into a noted social critic who, as King writes, believed that real enlightenment “came through ... members who were,” King writes. Newton and John Locke were ...

The debacle around Ta-Nehisi Coates’ latest book shows us that no matter a writer’s individual acclaim, the liberal media ...

John Locke dies in Essex, England, at the age of 72. An English philosopher, Locke wrote about ideas like the social contract, religious toleration, and citizens’ right to “life, liberty, and estate.” ...

John Adams “I hope I shall ... How many could describe the thinking of Locke, Rosseau, Montesquieu or any of other philosophers of the Enlightenment? Could they have possibly composed a single ...