Enlightenment
204The Founding of Rome
26 Aug 2024
27:21¶ 88
“I’m wondering if this demonstrates some of our presuppositions in the modern Enlightenment thinking because they looked back to the Romans as a great…”
28:03¶ 89
“It's kind of an interesting thought that they looked back and saw the Romans upholding these things, and because of their presuppositions didn’t look…”
28:44¶ 91
“No, it’s more just an interesting similarity that I saw. I was like, “Oh, those are really similar virtues to what Enlightenment thinkers said,…”
193Cyrus, King of Persia
20 May 2024
36:28¶ 112
“I can’t imagine studying the founding of the United States and the drafting of our founding documents and all the discourse and discussion that…”
36:46¶ 113
“Yes, and people then act on those ideas, although they don’t actually always admit where they got their ideas. If you went back and…”
37:12¶ 114
“And yet you can’t have the Enlightenment without Christianity.”
174In the Beginning... Again
4 Jan 2024
12:47¶ 40
“Backing up along the way there’s a developing and maturing of the idea of linear history. When the Enlightenment came along, these guys looked…”
13:22¶ 41
“We have smart people, philosopher kings, scientists, and technicians who can implement plans – many of them belong to secret societies, we won’t talk…”
13:51¶ 42
“What they didn’t see, and what the next generation rather impolitely pointed out to them, was, “Uh, you’re borrowing Christian stuff. You still have…”
153A New Law (Part 2)
16 Jan 2023
38:03¶ 136
“It took the Enlightenment to say, “Yeah, but your answers keep getting people killed in wars of religion. We have better ideas that won’t…”
133Of Contracts and Covenants (Part 5) - By What Other Standard?
29 Aug 2022
24:32¶ 64
“It's not until we get to the Enlightenment that people actually begin to say, “How about building a culture that has absolutely no reference…”
25:06¶ 65
“It took a long time for them to actually get to the point where they said, “Oh, and we don’t need any god at…”
131Of Contracts and Covenants (Part 4) - The Myth of Consent
15 Aug 2022
22:18¶ 71
“Oh, it’s a meme statement, but it’s also kind of true. The Enlightenment project of justifying morality was doomed to fail.”
22:28¶ 72
“Yeah, and that’s exactly what we’ve got here. We have Locke trying to justify the fact that you have to, get to, live in…”
24:05¶ 77
“Hindsight is 20/20. It’s easy to fault Locke and his Enlightenment buddies for departing from scripture, and I think that’s pretty much the only…”
128Of Contracts and Covenants (Part 1)
25 Jul 2022
25:25¶ 66
“We mentioned Locke up front and, for people who are lost and have no idea what we’re talking about, I should go back and…”
26:03¶ 67
“In some cases the motives seemed admirable enough. “We’ve tried appealing to the Bible and that led to the wars of religion. You can…”
29:14¶ 73
“I keep saying rational and logical because that’s what the Enlightenment was all about. Reason is neutral. Reason is not fallen. You may be…”
115The Idol State
25 Apr 2022
26:30¶ 84
“The Enlightenment basically told us, “Grant the State all of its due attributes – omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence – and it will give you Utopia.…”
26:06¶ 83
“Man is a religious being and you cannot yank religion out of him. You can’t tear it out of his heart. In the absence…”
70Science and Wonder
23 May 2021
35:03¶ 110
“Then we get into things like this. So at the very basic level, while the Enlightenment was trying to find neutral ground to stand…”
35:36¶ 111
“Yeah, he may have rigged the programming, he may have done the coding for the universe, but surely he does not interfere now. If…”
65The Sociology of Social Studies
28 Mar 2021
12:15¶ 53
“That’s the kind of thing we’re talking about. When we come out of the Enlightenment, the basic idea was, the light of Newton’s Principia,…”
12:42¶ 54
“Once we do that, once we have enough data and we know the rules, yes, we can tell the future, but we can also…”
13:07¶ 55
“But the more consistent members of that society said, “Yeah, you guys have got a problem. You’ve denied God, but you’re still acting as…”
48Social Vision and the Ten Commandments (Part 1)
29 Nov 2020
9:05¶ 31
“There are lots of good reasons for doing this, so we’re going to start here with Thomas Sowell’s idea of the unconstrained vision. This…”
13:43¶ 41
“Again, to give the philosophes of the Revolution their due, they were fools enough to believe that they themselves were good and well-intentioned, that…”
14:09¶ 42
“They were rather dismayed and shocked when they found out it wasn’t working, and that their own colleagues were calling them out for retaining…”
12OOPArts, Social Theory, and Progress
22 Mar 2020
42:19¶ 145
“There was in early Enlightenment thought this extremely optimistic belief stolen directly from Christianity that said we can make progress. The argument of this…”
43:07¶ 146
“They kept insisting, and even when the Enlightenment began to fragment there would be one wing saying, “Atheism means no values,” and the other…”
41:10¶ 141
“Notice where that comes from. Notice the Enlightenment and compare it with the demise of Puritanism. We stepped directly from the Puritans giving up…”
10Myth of Neutrality
8 Mar 2020
35:29¶ 103
“This is a hard thing for people. The starting point of the Enlightenment very much was, “We understand all the religious arguments. They’re religious.…”
36:52¶ 107
“When people here want a better grasp of engineering, computer science, mathematics or whatever, they don’t go and sit at the feet of the…”
4Trinity (part 1)
26 Jan 2020
19:45¶ 72
“I’m reading a book by Carl Becker, a series of lectures. It’s real short and it’s taking me forever to get through it, in…”
20:20¶ 73
“Becker is there just praising this up one side and down the other, about how fearless and ruthless and honest they were – well,…”
18:56¶ 69
“Even before the liberals of the 19th century, you go back to the Enlightenment and there were people who tried to find the historical…”