Overview :"Have the courage to use your own understanding - that is the motto of enlightenment." - Immanuel Kant The Enlightenment is one of the most... Read More
Overview :Adam Smith (1723-1790) is widely regarded as one of the great thinkers of the Enlightenment period. Best-known for his founding work of econ... Read More
Overview :Modern notions of empathy often celebrate its ability to bridge divides, to unite humankind. Yet how do we square this with the popular view... Read More
Overview :Distributive justice in its modern sense calls on the state to guarantee that everyone is supplied with a certain level of material means. S... Read More
Overview :Samuel Fleischacker defends what the Enlightenment called 'revealed religion': religions that regard a certain text or oral teaching as sacr... Read More
Overview :'It is written ..., ' says the believer in a sacred text, and proceeds to justify all manner of terrifying things. Or so runs a popular cari... Read More
Overview :Adam Smith was a philosopher before he ever wrote about economics, yet until now there has never been a philosophical commentary on the Weal... Read More
Overview :Taking the title of his book from Isaiah Berlin's famous essay distinguishing a negative concept of liberty connoting lack of interference b... Read More