Hanging with History
The first season focuses on the origins of the Industrial Revolution or the Great Enrichment, we go deep into history to gain enough background knowledge to actually understand the various theories of the origins of the Great Enrichment. Eventually we learn that we also need to know how the miracle was consolidated, as the many other close approaches to the Industrial Revolution failed.A kwirky style, but intellectually ambitious with the goal of understanding history well enough to understand the miracle that happened that one time. It's gonna be a long series.
Hanging with History
131. Radical Enlightenment; The Crisis of the European Mind Part 1
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Harald Hansen
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Season 1
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Episode 131
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The first of a six episode arc on the Early Enlightenment. We emphasize the clash of ideas, then the content of ideas, then biography.
This episode lays out the 3 way battle for the dominant philosophy between the Aristotelian Scholastics, the dominate group in 1600, the moderate Enlightenment (which itself consisted of 3 battling elements, Cartesians, Newtonians and Leibnizians) and the Radical Enlightenment whose chief philosophical source was Spinoza.
We lay out key beliefs of the traditional Aristotelians, their method and then the beliefs of the Cartesians.
3 episodes on Spinoza will follow and one each on Leibniz and Newton to finish.