Enlightenment Capital's reveal of its newest investment vehicle coincides with a rebrand of the workflow and regulatory software provider it acquired in the spring. Enlightenment Capital, an ...

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In an exclusive extract from his book, Roy Porter asks what is the enlightenment and begins to assess its achievement. What was the Enlightenment? Just over two hundred years ago, the German ...

The Buddha, a revered spiritual figure, once proclaimed that enlightenment is the end of suffering. This profound statement has been a source of intrigue and contemplation for many, leading to many ...

The many anti-globalist politicians, parties, and movements roiling the politics of Western liberal democracies can be understood in many ways. But the most fruitful may be to view them as the latest ...

For Immanuel Kant, the central theme of the Enlightenment—that great 18th century movement that emphasized the power of reason—was Sapere aude. This is usually translated as "Dare to know" or, more ...

It would probably come as a surprise to most readers in Europe and America that the Enlightenment spread all the way to Greece in the eighteenth century and spawned revolutionary movements in support ...

The reactionary theorists in power in the United States identify themselves with a movement dubbed “the Dark Enlightenment”, ...

Something quite extraordinary happened in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries: the diversified intellectual explosion called the Enlightenment. Philosophers, natural scientists (the divide ...