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 ...

We’ve been hearing a lot about the “1619 Project,” and hearing also (somewhat less) about the “1776 Project.” But what the world really needs is a “1689 Project.” The year 1689 was the key one in the ...

Che Guevara was many things: a bloodthirsty executioner, a propagandist, an admirer of mass murderer Mao Zedong. But he was not a big fan of the Enlightenment philosopher John Locke, whose support for ...

The Enlightenment philosopher John Locke deserves to be considered an honorary Founding Father of the U.S. because the young Thomas Jefferson in drafting the Declaration of Independence used his ...

A rare book annotated by Scottish philosopher and economist Adam Smith is to go on display in his home town in Fife. The book by philosopher John Locke, Two Treatises of Civil Government, complete ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Most historians agree there was a shift away from Calvinism and toward Enlightenment thought during the eighteenth century. When discussing ...