Scicast
Illuminism (SciCast #510)
2022 • E44 Nov 11, 2022 87m
To explain the Enlightenment, I often use a metaphor: we lived in a world before it and now we live in another. The current mentality has many of the Enlightenment principles rooted in it. As well as institutions and everything that we understand as “organized civil society”. But how were these ideas born and who were their thinkers? In this cast, which is just part 1, we give a brief glimpse of what the birth of the Enlightenment would have been like.