‘“Dare to know!” – that is the motto of enlightenment’, wrote Kant in 1784, in his famous essay ‘What is Enlightenment?’ Clerical authority, the veracity of the Bible, miracles, magic, satanic ...

By Sonal Srivastava Should politicians use religion to garner votes from their constituencies in secular democracies? It is a million-dollar question with no real answer. While it is challenging to ...

Around the same time, influential social and political philosophers like Britain ... of Voltaire’s souring on the Enlightenment’s foundational beliefs that his Candide would burn at the ...

This separation is well-entrenched in modern western philosophy and was reiterated by several thinkers at different points in time, including the enlightenment advocate John Locke, who said that ...

Second, it was by no means a straightforwardly secularising movement. Outside France especially, Enlightenment thinkers did not necessarily treat reason and religion as opposites. Many, if not most, ...

In a world increasingly shaped by secularism and scientific empiricism, a paradox emerges: the enduring belief that history has direction, meaning and purpose—a secularized form of providentialism.

Asclepiades of Bithynia, influenced by Epicurean philosophy, pioneered medical innovations and foreshadowed the principles of ...

Certainly, reasonable people can find many knowledge claims about the world commonsensical. However, common sense appeals in ...