Truth be told, nobody really understands all the factors that can help facilitate enlightenment. If they did, we would all be enlightened by now. Moreover, many of the states taken to be "enlightened" are actually states of the subtle or causal realm. That is, they are extraordinary experi...
Arts evolved to meet changing tastes and reflect new Enlightenment ideas. ... Philosophers wanted to influence change by sharing their ideas with rulers. During this time, why did change occur slowly for most Europeans?Some rulers accepted Enlightenment idead but retained their absolute control so ...
The Enlightenment or the Age of Reason was the ideology that reason, logic, and the philosophers' belief that the universe was a mechanical clock, a theory of the power of mathematics to demonstrate the beauty of logic. Is it logical that humans are chattels? Is it logical that...
In June 2018, Henry Kissinger published an article inTheAtlantictitled “How the Enlightenment Ends.” At first glance, the article seems to suggest that the Enlightenment, the “Age of Reason,” has been put to an end by artificial intelligence. Machines that have the capacity for analysis an...
The temporary division of knowledge into “knowledge of knowing the world” and “knowledge of changing the world” is only convenient for further discussion in this paper. This division is in line with the description that “Philosophers only interpret the world in different ways, but the problem...
The theory of limited government can be traced back to the Enlightenment philosophers of the 17th century, but the idea itself is much older. It is also associated with the free market and classical liberalism, though politicians and economists differ on the exact limitations that a government sho...
(1784) andCritique of Practical Reason(1788), but his concepts of cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitan law have had equally lasting legacies. In the same year as his Enlightenment answer, Kant publishedIdea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose, in which he set f...
cult of history as progress reached its peak in late 19th century when British power & confidence is at its height. Ex: Acton.Nicholas I of Russia is said to have issued an order banning the word ‘progress’: nowadays the philosophers and historians of western Europe, and even the United...
Other philosophers (in particular Hegel), the French language, women (several times, placing women as a secondary sex), university professors / deans, journalists, writers… [Twitter thread] This year I read a bit more than in 2023 but not as much as I would have liked, as I found my...
So it’s this very complex relationship between polar contrasts, the Chinese philosophers, and therefore Chinese medicine, I think, are after. That behind yang is therefore yin. Behind yin is yang. And the two do not clash and conflict following Aristotle’s. Why is it in the west that ...