The intellectual path from Ancient Greece to modernity is littered with the path of numerous philosophers, movements, and ...

The ideas expressed by John Locke seem unremarkable today. We take them for granted. But Locke was a key element in the ...

Newly discovered ‘Reasons for tolerateing Papists equally with others’ shows the Enlightenment thinker expressing unexpected social liberalism A “once in a generation” discovery of a centuries-old ...

Source: John Locke's Kit-cat portrait by Godfrey Kneller, National Portrait Gallery, London The English philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) played a vital role in promoting the ideals of the ...

Inspired by English philosopher John Locke and influenced by the Age of Enlightenment in Europe, Thomas Jefferson wrote what many consider the most important sentence in the Declaration of Independenc ...

This celebrated essay, available to its first readers in December 1689, though formally dated 1690, could hardly be more topical today. It is an examination of the nature of the human mind, and its ...