Courtesy of Britain’s Enlightenment and its “moral philosophers,” the religious virtue of compassion has become a secular one, and a private duty has become a public responsibility, writes Gertrude ...

When I was in college I took a course in the Enlightenment. In those days, when people spoke of the Enlightenment, they usually meant the French Enlightenment — such thinkers as Descartes, Rousseau, ...

Why should Gertrude Himmelfarb have bothered to write a study of the Enlightenment ? A leading neo-conservative intellectual, author of nine books that mostly hail the virtues of Victorianism, she is ...

A blind spot -- The birth of an ideology -- Clearing away the rubbish -- Print culture -- Rationalizing religion -- The culture of science -- Anatomizing human nature -- The science of politics -- ...

John Locke’s comparison of the mind to a blank piece of paper, the tabula rasa, was one of the most recognizable metaphors of the British Enlightenment. Though scholars embrace its impact on the arts, ...

Babur, the first Mughal emperor, was apocryphally said to have observed after the first battle of Panipat in 1526 that the “Hindustanis” were skilled swordsmen but not very knowledgeable about ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Washington Ballet and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment have struck content partnerships with British arts streamer Marquee TV. Over the coming months, Marquee has committed to ...