Enlightenment ideas planted seeds in education systems in the colonies including north America and South Africa. Govan Mbeki, father of Thabo, in Glasgow after his release from Robben Island ...

Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights, 1750-1790 By Jonathan I. Israel (Oxford University Press, 1,066 pp., $45) I. There’s something about the Enlightenment. Today ...

The philosophy behind Trump’s Dark Enlightenment An English magus of anti-democratic neoreaction has become a touchstone for the alt-right Jonathan Derbyshire ...

That Enlightenment philosophy, which is responsible for some of our most treasured ideals about universal human rights, was rooted in a consistent discourse of anti-Semitism should give us pause.

Proving that liberation and enlightenment in Buddhist philosophy are “evidence-based” View(s): In the early 1980s, during my undergraduate days, Professor Carlo Fonseka, the then Professor of ...

Generative artificial intelligence presents a philosophical and practical challenge on a scale not experienced since the start of the Enlightenment. Skip to Main Content Explore Our Brands ...

Offering a provocative thesis that demonstrates Islamabad’s inability to address conflict and foster peace, Professor Moonis Ahmar’s latest book The Challenge of Enlightenment, Conflict ...

The Enlightenment: History of an Idea by Vincenzo Ferrone, translated by Elisabetta Tarantino (Princeton University Press, £19.95) The humble ambition of every historian, as defined by Leopold von ...