"It has been said, indeed, that the eighteenth century was less the Age of Reason than the Age of Feelings"because so many Enlightenment thinkers took pride in recognizing the importance of the sentiments, as their intellectual predecessors often had not. (In Hume's famous line: "Reason is and ought only to be the slave of the […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM on May 14, 2019