The Hegelian Dialectic: Thesis + Antithesis = Synthesis Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 – 1831) pioneered what is called the…
Liberalism of the 18th and 19th centuries would not have had Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton as adherents. Liberals of…
The French Revolution The French Revolution (1789-1799) can be summed up by the following equation: corruption + oppression + depression…
Adam Smith (1723-1790) was an 18th century Scottish philosopher and economist who wrote The Wealth of Nations, a famous book…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was a Francophone Genevan philosopher of the Enlightenment of the 18th century. Like his predecessor Hobbes, Rousseau advocated…
John Locke (1632-1704) was one of the most influential philosophers of the Enlightenment and has been called “the Father of…
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was an English political philosopher of the Enlightenment period. Hobbes pioneered the idea of the “state of…
David Hume (1711-1776) was a philosopher during the so-called Enlightenment of the 17th-18th centuries. One of his infamous contributions to…