Of their two books, Du Châtelet’s The Institutions of Physics (1740) had the most impact. It went into four editions and influenced Enlightenment thinkers ranging from the editors of the Encyclopédie ...

In mainstream thought, the Enlightenment is commonly perceived as a heroic campaign for secularisation and emancipation led by great thinkers known as philosophes. Voltaire and Hume are often seen as ...

Enlightenment thinkers shared a fundamental commitment to the use of reason rather than faith ... had ended up participating in obnoxious and unproductive forms of economic activity such as usury.

during a standardized test. Help students to adapt to different learning styles and methods of communication / knowledge sharing. Creative thinking classroom activities can be as simple as asking ...

A wave of terror washed over him. The terror isn't actually a wave, but a wave is a good way of describing the feeling. Jess is dynamite. She's not made of dynamite ...

While you are playing this game you will be ‘working scientifically’ – that means thinking like a scientist! A scientist who studies Dinosaurs is called a Palaeontologist.

For example, a good number of Christian comparative theologians have been fascinated by the Buddhist notion of emptiness, at times as a way to deal with the impasses of classical metaphysics and ...