Everyone knows that. But treating those limits as moral collapse is an evasion, allowing critics to keep the moral ...

The Age of Enlightenment brought us crucial inventions and discoveries in many areas including the circulation of blood, optics, scientific classification, calculus, the microscope, gravity and more ...

A lot of people are selling Enlightenment these days. After the Brexit vote and the election of President Trump, David Brooks published a paean to the “Enlightenment project,” declaring it under ...

Many people believe that spirituality and Enlightenment are meant only for the elderly. They believe that youth is for enjoyment and entertainment while old age is for Enlightenment. And so, the young ...

Enlightenment. The E word. The state of consciousness all spiritual seekers hope for. And yet wishing for enlightenment is a wonderfully paradoxical experience: craving the state of non-craving, ...

18th-century map of Madagascar by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. (Getty) The late David Graeber was an anarchist, an activist, and an anthropologist—and a master storyteller. Throughout his career, he ...

The Enlightenment is having a renaissance, of sorts. A handful of centrist and conservative writers have reclaimed the 17 th-and 18 th-century intellectual movement as a response to nationalism and ...