What Enlightenment thinkers influenced the Declaration of Independence? Who was the first president of France? Who signed the Declaration of Independence from New Jersey? Who argued that a bill of rights be added to the Constitution? What were the first two political parties formed in the U.S....
As one of the most prominent thinkers of the 17th century, Locke’s views on politics and economics have influenced government financial and monetary policies over the past 350-plus years. His writings on interest rates, the value of labor, and inequality, among other economic issues, are as ...
The French Revolutionary deists shared a common theology with the earlier deists, and many earlier deists also believed that God worked miracles. The Enlightenment deists were much more religious than commonly thought.Waligore, JosephHistorical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques...
Some Enlightenment thinkers might have seen such a loss as necessary for the advancement of science, but not Mary Shelley. She and her husband, poet Percy Shelly, were part of the Romantic Movement in art and literature. Romanticism was something against the Enlightenment's...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote his most notable works during the Enlightenment period, butit would be his influence on the next era of artful thinkerswhich would earn him the title 'the Father of Romanticism'. ... Rousseau's influence on the coming era was most prominent with his autobiography ...
artist; art world; art market; European Enlightenment; art history; neoliberalism; capitalism“… as humans, we cannot/do not preexist our cosmogonies, our representations of our origins.” (Wynter and McKittrick 2015, p. 36) 1. Who Is an Artist? And Why Do We Care? In 2013, the ...
One of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Adam Smith is best known for two classic works: The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776). The latter, usually abbreviated as The Wealth of Nations, is considered...
There were many other great thinkers who refined the scientific method, including Einstein, Russell, Popper and Feyerabend, amongst a whole host of other great thinkers. However, it may no longer be correct to talk of the 'scientific method,' rather the 'Physics Method' or the 'Psychology Met...
) duty to cultivate one’s talents, but there is no suggestion that talent or its development plays much of a role in Kant’s answer to the question of “what makes a human being valuable.” Hence Nietzsche savages Kant (and other Enlightenment thinkers) for promoting a “herd morality” ...
is split between individuals who have identified with the interests of a global oligarchy turning into a technocratic neo-feudal caste and an increasingly large stratum of people who instinctively feel they have been deprived of a future drawing on the legacy of humanism and the Enlightenment. ...