‘The Enlightenment’s Most Dangerous Woman’ Review: The Brilliant Marquise
Du Châtelet produced translations and commentaries on Newton’s and Bernard Mandeville’s work, criticized John Locke’s ...
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The Educational Writings of John Locke
John Locke (1632–1704) is widely regarded as one of the most influential of the Enlightenment philosophers. This volume, edited by J. W. Adamson and published as a second edition in 1922, contains two ...
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Free Exercise of Religion
One important philosophical influence on the Founders, the Enlightenment liberalism stemming from the writings of John Locke, does not lend itself easily to exempting religious practice from ...
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From Monarchy to Modern Statehood: The Proclamation of Republics, Key Examples, and Their Political-Philosophical Foundations
Additionally, Enlightenment ideas of liberty ... by emphasizing governance based on public consent. Originating with John Locke, natural rights theory asserts that individuals inherently possess ...
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What Is a Limited Government, and How Does It Work?
the idea was further developed by Enlightenment thinkers in the 17th and 18th centuries. The idea that government power requires the consent of the governed originates from John Locke. The concept ...
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Interview: Catherine Brekus
the so-called moderate Enlightenment figures like John Locke, or Scottish Enlightenment figures like the 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury [Anthony Ashley Cooper] and Francis Hutchinson. So there are new ...
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Sick of the 21st Century? These Artists Revive the 18th.
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 ...
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Writers For A New World
The debacle around Ta-Nehisi Coates’ latest book shows us that no matter a writer’s individual acclaim, the liberal media ...
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The Pragmatic Enlightenment
Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 67, Issue. 3, p. 589. Lloyd, Henry Martyn 2018. The French Enlightenment attempts to create a philosophy without reason: the case of Diderot and the effect of ...
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Marxism and the Enlightenment
A particularly noteworthy example is your statement that my “critique of postmodernism is used to sanction an uncritical defense of the Enlightenment ... philosopher John Dewey, into the ...
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Does the Enlightenment’s Great Female Intellect Need Rescuing?
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.
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Wrestling with the Trump win: here’s a deep explanation of how social isolation influenced his win
OPINION Matt Garvin I, like many others have been doing some reflection following last week’s election result. I am more and ...