The coffeehouse was essentially a hotbed for Enlightenment thought and served as the social home of the...
Enlightenment
Using modern technology to understand a network of eighteenth-century thinkers. Introduction In 1734, Voltaire fled Paris to...
The London coffeehouses of the 17th and 18th centuries were the engines of creation that helped drive...
Dog collars, which were previously utilitarian devices for controlling the animals, became ornate works of art. Introduction...
A heterogeneous group of people came together to engage in rational debate without regard to rank. Abstract...
The Scottish Enlightenment played a dominant part in the late-18th and early-19th century debate about the location...
Humanists believed in the importance of an education in classical literature and the promotion of civic virtue....
These thinkers often gathered in informal meetings, called salons, in private homes. There they exchanged and debated...
“Enlightenment is the human being’s emancipation from its self-incurred immaturity.” By Santana Juache Introduction The Enlightenment stemmed...
Enlightenment debates about colonialism had very little to do with what actually happened on the ground. While...
The Enlightenment advocated reason as a means to establishing an authoritative system of aesthetics, ethics, government, and...
Diderot produced an impressive, unfinished work over at least 15 years. Introduction Today (October 5) is 300...
The Enlightenment directly involved only the educated spheres of society. After Pietism and the Moravian movement, the...
Epicureanism competed with Stoicism to dominate Greek and Roman culture. By Temma Ehrenfeld ‘The pursuit of Happiness’...
Sir Francis Bacon developed a method for philosophers to use in weighing the truthfulness of knowledge. How...
The devil, once a part of the sacred truth, could now be seen as a fragment of...
During the European Enlightenment, a number of authors presented Muhammad as an anticlerical hero. Publishing the Quran...
Diderot was not a practicing scientist, but was as close to one as he could be. A...
The foundation was laid for Modernity by the philosophies and theories of the Enlightenment. Antecedents to Modernity...
Here are five things to know about this groundbreaking, tragic figure. You probably haven’t heard of Émilie du...
Criticism of the monarchy in the press was suppressed during this period. By Jennifer Hight Introduction The...