Von Goethe: The Father of Romanticism
Von Goethe: The Father of Romanticism By Gabriel Blanchard Goethe inaugurated a fundamental change in the passions that inspire literature in general. Romanticism is an idea we tend …
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Smith: The Soft Science of Hard Cash
Smith: The Soft Science of Hard Cash By Gabriel Blanchard To many people, capitalism is as essentially American as the stars and stripes—but where did it come from? …
Kant: The Evening Star of the Enlightenment
Kant: The Evening Star of the Enlightenment By Gabriel Blanchard We find ourselves to be in a modern world; whose fault is it? The traditional and perhaps best …
Hume: The Skeptic’s Skeptic
Hume: The Skeptic’s Skeptic By Matt McKeown In Hume, the Enlightenment produced a surprising enigma. Born in the early years of the century and dying a little over …