Why do names like Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rene Descartes, Emily Dickinson, and Voltaire still find their way into our institutions of higher education and popular culture today? Because they created intellectual breakthrough that, to this day, are the foundation for our science, governments, and societies.
The impact of the Enlightenment thinkers cannot be overstated. They changed the world, with their intellectual curiosity and poignant writing. The ideas and concepts the Enlightenment thinkers introduced a new area of existence for humans across the world.
What’s more, their elite writing skills created an endless vault of passages, quotes, and lines that are instructive and quotable yet today.
The Daily Dose of Reason offer 365 days of Enlightenment quotes, ideas, and lessons, along with concise biographies of the profiled thinkers and writers. You will benefit each day from Thoreau’s introspection, Rousseau’s advocacy of natural goodness, Montesquieu’s views on governing, Vico’s observations of historical cycles, Whitman’s embrace of individualism, and more.
Be more intellectually curious, and elevate your thinking with the Daily Dose of Reason.
