Source: Wikimedia Commons/Johann Gottlieb Becker/Public Domain. In 1783, two years after the publication of his masterpiece, The Critique of Pure Reason, the 59-year-old Immanuel Kant could finally ...

David Hume, the pre-eminent Enlightenment philosopher, was born in Edinburgh in 1711. There he lived for many years, and there he died, perhaps the most famous Scot in history. It was thus ...

Caffeine is a highly normalized and accepted drug in society; however, it's actually a lot more potent than a lot of us realize. If you're a daily coffee drinker, giving it up for a week or even a ...

The foundational principle of Enlightenment thinkers from Locke to Hume to Kant (not to mention their student Thomas Jefferson) was that the legitimate purpose of the state was to preserve individual ...

In David Graeber’s slim posthumous book, Pirate Enlightenment: Or the Real Libertalia, the anthropologist argues that 18th-century pirate society inspired and influenced European Enlightenment ...