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TMS - Enlightenment - Reason, Tolerance, And Humanity
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Written by James Schmidt
Read by James Schmidt
Format: MP3
Unabridged
Listening Length: 7 hours and 51 minutes
The Enlightenment stands at the threshold of the modern age. It elevated the natural sciences to the preeminent position they enjoy in modern culture. It inaugurated a skepticism toward tradition and authority that decisively shaped modern attitudes in religion, morality, and politics. And it gave birth to a vision of history that saw man, through the unfettered use of his own reason, at last escaping that state of "immaturity" to which superstition, prejudice, and dogma had condemned him. The world in which we live is, for better or worse, in large part the result of the Enlightenment.
This course will explore this remarkable period. It will discuss the work of such influential thinkers as Voltaire, John Locke, Denis Diderot, Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, and Benjamin Franklin. It will also spend some time with less well-known, but no less influential, figures such as Joseph Priestly - a clergyman, scientist, and philosopher who was one of the most passionate defenders of the American Revolution in England - and the remarkable John Toland, a man whose writings on religion changed the way many Europeans thought about the Scriptures.
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Enlightenment - Reason, Tolerance, and Humanity.pdf
668.7 KB
Lecture 01 - The Question of Enlightenment.mp3
18.3 MB
Lecture 02 - Europe in the 1680s_ The Political Origins of the Enlightenment.mp3
22.1 MB
Lecture 03 - Scientific Inquiry, Religious Controversy, and Political Dissent.mp3
19.7 MB
Lecture 04 - Voltaire and the Campaign Against Fanaticism.mp3
19 MB
Lecture 05 - The Emergence of the Public Sphere I_ Academies and the Quest for Useful Knowledge.mp3
22 MB
Lecture 06 - The Emergence of the Public Sphere II_ Coffeehouses and Salons.mp3
22.9 MB
Lecture 07 - The Emergence of the Public Sphere III_ Secret Societies and the Clandestine Book Tr.mp3
22.8 MB
Lecture 08 - Diderot and the Encyclopédie.mp3
21.7 MB
Lecture 09 - Dreaming Philosophers and Crazy Musicians_ Diderot’s Later Career.mp3
20.3 MB
Lecture 10 - New Worlds, Strange Peoples, and Peculiar Customs.mp3
22.5 MB
Lecture 11 - The Scottish Enlightenment and the Origins of Social Theory.mp3
19.6 MB
Lecture 12 - Enlightenment in Germany_ Lessing and Mendelssohn.mp3
20.5 MB
Lecture 13 - An Age of Revolutions.mp3
20.1 MB
Lecture 14 - The Legacies of the Enlightenment.mp3
