Secularism has long been viewed as integral to modernization due to its connection with the Enlightenment. The broad ...

Advertisement A second “branch” of the Enlightenment arose largely from John Locke, 18th century English political philosophy, Edmund Burke, and their kin. It happened in the American Revolution.

Enlightenment thinkers like John Locke and David Hume, pioneers of empiricism and rational inquiry, strongly influenced America’s founders. To "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts ...

His book’s overarching argument holds that, for the Founders—he concentrates on Jefferson, John Adams ... via their readings of Enlightenment philosophers such as Locke and Hume.

When you think about some of the most important history lessons in the United States, learning about the Founding Fathers is ...

but the phrase itself comes from English philosopher and Enlightenment thinker John Locke, whose “Second Treatise on Government” argued that all people have the moral right, when civil power ...

Even John Locke, who regains the ability to walk at ... Besides personal transformation, Lost explores philosophical concepts like enlightenment, change versus stagnation, free will, and the ...

In order to trace the shifting definition of “liberalism,” Jack Bissette interviews two professors of political science, ...

Has the statist tide turned from where we were culturally and politically four years ago? Or is this just a temporary lull ...