Gertrude Himmelfarb, distinguished professor of history emeritus at the City University of New York, delivered the ninth of the 2003-2004 Bradley Lectures on May 10. Edited excerpts follow. The ...
Courtesy of Britain’s Enlightenment and its “moral philosophers,” the religious virtue of compassion has become a secular one, and a private duty has become a public responsibility, writes Gertrude ...
WHEN I was in college I took a course in the Enlightenment. In those days, when people spoke of the Enlightenment, they usually meant the French Enlightenment – thinkers like Descartes, Rousseau, ...
WE MUST STILL NOT BE ENLIGHTENED–given how little we agree about the answer to the question, “What is Enlightenment?” We seem not to agree even when the question is purely historical: The phenomenon ...
On Sunday, David Brooks discussed theories of the French and Scottish Enlightenments and their relevance to contemporary American politics. In his definitions, he lumped Edmund Burke with Scottish ...
On Sunday, David Brooks discussed theories of the French and Scottish Enlightenments and their relevance to contemporary American politics. In his definitions, he lumped Edmund Burke with Scottish ...
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