Kristina Vaughn

…igion had nothing to do with the astonishing progress we’ve seen since the Enlightenment, what did? As the 20th century philosopher Karl Popper argued, the actual foundation of modern civilisation is a secular tradition of conjecture and criticism of ideas, which continually resolves our deepest problems and conflicts without the need for violence. This thread winds through the complex story of the British and Continental Enlightenments, but has …