Robert And James Adam Architects Of The Age Of Enlightenment

The Enlightenment, an eighteenth-century philosophical and cultural movement that swept through Western Europe, has often been characterized as a mostly secular phenomenon that ult...

Psychologist, philosopher, teacher, writer–William James stood closer than any other thinker to the center of the confluence of intellectual and artistic forces that defined the cu...

Voltaire is still the most important representative of the Enlightenment in Europe. He was a firm critic of absolutism, feudalism and the Catholic Church. Throughhis extensive corr...

Abstract We remember William James for his colorful descriptions of subjective experience, perhaps above all. But in Consciousness Is Motor, Alexander Klein shows th...

Virtue theory, natural law, deontology, utilitarianism, existentialism: these are the basic moral theories taught in “Ethics,” “History of Philosophy,” and “Introduction to Philoso...

This fourth volume explores the intersections and transformations of empire in the late 17th and 18th centuries: an age of “Enlightenment” understood here both as a product of thes...

In the Age of Enlightenment (1650-1800) the word ‘leisure’ had a limited presence in intellectual discourse, but in public debates about related concepts such as pleasure and luxur...