The Enlightenment


The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters
Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750
Candide
The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790
Ethics
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
The Enlightenment, Volume 1: The Rise of Modern Paganism
Theological-Political Treatise
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Two Treatises of Government
The Social Contract
Leviathan
Lesslie Newbigin
The strong counterattack against the values of the European Enlightenment has come just at the time when, for the reasons already given, the confidence of Europe in its own culture is collapsing. The result of the conjunction of these two forces is the phenomenon of multiculturalism, an ideology that celebrates cultural diversity as an unqualified good in its own right. When this ideology takes over, value judgments claiming to discriminate between different cultural traditions in terms of their ...more
Lesslie Newbigin, Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt, and Certainty in Christian Discipleship

Alasdair MacIntyre
The book review pages of those journals are the graveyards of constructive academic philosophy, and any doubts as to whether rational consensus might not after all be achievable on modern academic moral philosophy can be put to rest by reading them through regularly.
Alasdair MacIntyre, Whose Justice? Which Rationality?

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