Each generation connects us to the Enlightenment in new ways. To paraphrase Voltaire, if the Enlightenment ... He wants to draw a rising line of human flourishing from 200 years ago to now.

for surely Voltaire's life—law school dropout, ex-con, hero of The Age of Enlightenment, and pro bono counsel—was Shakespearean. David Lenefsky practices law in Manhattan. He was formerly ...

Her husband, Voltaire and Saint Lambert were all devastated by her death. In “The Enlightenment’s Most Dangerous Woman,” Andrew Janiak, a professor of philosophy at Duke University ...

Voltaire, the Enlightenment philosopher, saw in this catastrophe a fissure in the narrative of a world under benevolent divine care. Through his poem on the Lisbon disaster, Voltaire erected a ...

Voltaire was enabled to become an old and famous aristocrat by his lottery winnings. Flickr Francois-Marie Arouet, better-remembered by his pen name “Voltaire,” was born on this day in 1694 ...

Secularisation is an unworthy expression for the men and women of the Enlightenment ― like Voltaire and Mary Wollstonecraft ― who were electrified by a certain perception of God, however ...

Yet while the names most remembered from the Enlightenment era – Locke, Newton, Voltaire, Kant, Paine – belong to men, there were many women who participated in and influenced the intellectual ...

For those who recognize the names Hegel, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Voltaire, and Diderot but ... Through the popularity of Enlightenment treatises, concepts of equality and human rights were broached ...

In fact, when the Charlie Hebdo tragedy burst into the news, I was putting the finishing touches to my course this semester for the French Enlightenment. Inevitably, Voltaire was, once again ...