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Enlightenment
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Sunday, August 16, 2026
What can Libertarians Learn from Foucault?
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Before reading Mark Pennington’s recent book, Foucault and Liberal Political Economy : Power, Knowledge, and Freedom , it would not have ...
Thursday, July 16, 2026
Did the Enlighteners Reject Aristotle?
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In his book, The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680- 1790 , Ritchie Robertson uses the term “Enlighteners” to describe the propo...
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Did Enlightenment thinkers believe that reason could illuminate all phenomena?
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When I began to think about David Friedrich’s painting “Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog”, there seemed to be something odd about it. The pai...
Monday, February 3, 2020
When and how did the concept of progress originate?
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Are you one of those people who has not given up hope that following generations will have better opportunities than you have had? If ...
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Why did the US Declaration of Independence specify an unalienable right to the pursuit of happiness?
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Given that the United States was founded by politicians, is there is any point trying to understand why any particular words were inclu...
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