Cryptic Vector, an Enlightenment Capital-backed company specializing in cybersecurity and electronic warfare, has acquired a ...

Moreover, your claim that the Enlightenment philosophers provided “rationalizations of a new form of class oppression” is grotesquely one-sided and basically false.

CULTURE CLUB/GETTY IMAGES The Enlightenment began not only with books and pamphlets, but with an earthquake. In 1755, an earthquake flattened Lisbon, set it aflame, and then caused a massive ...

The Enlightenment — the name historians give to the intellectual upheaval that swept across the European world in the 18th century — not only filled supporters with the hope that an Age of ...

If the Enlightenment did anything, it was only to accelerate a process that had been ongoing for centuries. 3. The modern age doesn't look so hot when you count abortion.

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The Enlightenment provides a touchstone for our understanding of modern history and, not least, for our sense of the current moment. More than two centuries ago, a shift in outlook sought to throw ...

Books & Arts Published: 29 May 2003 The journey to Enlightenment Steven Shapin Nature 423, 482–483 (2003) Cite this article ...

In this thought-provoking book, molecular biologist Lee Silver defends science, biotechnology and post-Enlightenment values, which have come under attack by two ostensibly divergent groups in ...