Peter Harrison is an Australian Laureate Fellow and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland. His most recent books are The Territories of Science and ...

At the very heart of Buddhism is the promise of enlightenment. It’s the bright flame illuminating the dharma, and the rich variety of practices developed in the traditions that make up Buddhism are ...

In this interview with Har-Prakash Khalsa, he talks about enlightenment—the different stages, the fact that Buddhists don’t “own” it, and how enlightenment can be a sudden, dramatic experience or else ...

Enlightenment, the ultimate form of connection with the divine, and of course, inner peace, is hard to achieve. Only a select few are able to achieve enlightenment, leave their desires of the world, ...

At an exhibition dedicated to him at the Jewish Museum Berlin, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier described the philosopher's legacy as "universal." The Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. A cultural polyglot, born in Asia and naturalized in the US, Lintao “LT” Lu shares his ...

‘Of the Civil Magistrate’: How Presbyterians Shifted on Church-State Relations How to Live in the Fellowship of Christ’s Sufferings How to Live Strengthened by the Grace of Christ There are certain ...

Although the Enlightenment revolutionized human thought and transformed the world, it failed to produce a coherent theory of knowledge. The central reason is that the modernist systems of science and ...

The Age of Enlightenment brought us crucial inventions and discoveries in many areas including the circulation of blood, optics, scientific classification, calculus, the microscope, gravity and more ...