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 ...

Source: John Locke's Kit-cat portrait by Godfrey Kneller, National Portrait Gallery, London The English philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) played a vital role in promoting the ideals of the ...

More than fifty years ago, the Cambridge political scientist John Dunn shook the academic world by the collar when he argued—contrary to the secular account of the origins of liberal democracy—that ...

Rachael Kohn: Hello, I'm Rachael Kohn, and this is The Ark. The 17th century movement called The Enlightenment is usually imagined to be a religion-free zone, where empirical science and the ...

Sometimes one comes across niggling questions, simple yet multi-layered. An inquisitive youngster recently asked what, in my opinion, was the most influential event of history. I am usually irked when ...

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