The Age of Enlightenment was a period during the 17th and 18th centuries in which intellectuals considered a wide range of ideas, many of which focused on the value of human happiness. While the ...

Ambitious exhibition ‘Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment’ captures the first real age of mass media. How enlightened, truly, was the Enlightenment, a period in Europe ...

"Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment” looks at prints and drawings from the 18th century, a time of revolutions -- both political and idological. The exhibition encourages ...

So what is the Enlightenment, the great German philosopher Immanuel Kant was asked back in 1784 – as this transformative body of ideas and values swept across Europe. It is, he replied, to dare to ...

“The Great Divide” explores how ideas that came to the fore during the Enlightenment at once blurred social hierarchies and reinforced them, particularly along ...

GENEVA, Nov 15 (Reuters) - African Humanists -- atheists, secularists and freethinkers -- gather next week in Ghana, one of the world's most religious countries, to look at ways to promote an ...

Hannah French visits Acland Burghley School in north London to find out about its relationship with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, who are now resident there. Show more Hannah French ...