So what is the Enlightenment, the great German philosopher Immanuel Kant was asked back in 1784 – as this transformative body of ideas and values swept across Europe. It is, he replied, to dare to ...
Yale political scientist Ian Shapiro admires Tom Paine, the English-born American revolutionary whose 1776 pamphlet “Common Sense” galvanized support for independence from Great Britain, whose ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Professor Hadley Arkes talked about the enlightenment ideas that contributed to the concept that power should be derived from the consent of the ...