Kant summed up Voltaire’s idea best when he said: “Our age is the ... German-Jewish philosophers Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, had reduced and “dehumanized” Enlightenment aspirations ...

The Enlightenment was not just an age of reason. Another popular misconception ... As Henry Martyn Lloyd, an honorary research fellow in philosophy at the University of Queensland, points out ...

The Age of Enlightenment certainly had no lack of women philosophers. Emilie du Châtelet (1706-1749) translated and explained Isaac Newton, while meditating on happiness. Madame du Deffand (1696 ...

Titled “The Great Divide: Footwear in the Age of Enlightenment,” the ... Though they were a heterogenous group, Enlightenment philosophers were united in their conviction that rational thought ...

He was the single central figure identified with what is called The Age of Enlightenment, a period from about 1740 to 1789 when many thoughtful Europeans believed they had at last emerged from ...

Philosophers seem to be a more mixed bag: some shine early and some, like Wittgenstein, have distinct chapters of youth and middle age ... he takes to be rooted in Enlightenment thought, and ...