Issue 57: Dossier
You could get invited to an eighteenth-century salon at any time. Be prepared.
Illustration by Rose Wong
- Cartesian doubt
The systematic application of skepticism to one’s own beliefs.
- Consent of the governed
The idea that a government’s legitimacy and authority proceeds from the consent of the people over whom power is exercised.
- Deism
The philosophical position of belief in a supreme being that proceeds not from divine revelation but from rational thought and observation of the natural world.
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