143.  French Revolution; Necessary Reform and Planting the seeds of Disaster; Part 1

143. French Revolution; Necessary Reform and Planting the seeds of Disaster; Part 1

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The first year of the French Revolution the way it is conventionally dated from the fall of the Bastille. We have had bloody violence and sensible reforms, the loss of privileges for the first and 2nd estates were a really good idea. The establishment of the departments, also sensible, a reform that has lasted to the present day. But we’ve also got craziness, a captive king, who really can’t do his job in any ide...

Jaksot(210)

Adam Smith and the Power of Love; Adam Smith Part 7

Adam Smith and the Power of Love; Adam Smith Part 7

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Calvinism undermines itself by elevating human reason as the tool for analysis and understanding of God above feeling and love and human ...

30 Heinä 202146min

67.  Adam Smith and Why the Enlightenment Loved Him

67. Adam Smith and Why the Enlightenment Loved Him

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Adam Smith’s systematic approach made reality tractable. This provided enlightenment thinkers with a framework with which to analyze gov...

16 Heinä 202145min

66.  Adam Smith Part 5, The Wealth of Nations continued

66. Adam Smith Part 5, The Wealth of Nations continued

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. How does opulence among nations arise? Smith describes a Newtonian system of non violent market competition operating through the price ...

2 Heinä 202137min

Adam Smith Part 4 The Wealth of Nations -Introduction

Adam Smith Part 4 The Wealth of Nations -Introduction

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. So how do you get from a subsistence economy where the great mass lives on the edge of famine and disaster? Funny you should ask, becau...

18 Kesä 202145min

64. Adam Smith  Pt.3; The Theory of Moral Sentiments;  What kind of monkeys are we?

64. Adam Smith Pt.3; The Theory of Moral Sentiments; What kind of monkeys are we?

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Why do humans behave decently towards each other? Adam Smith doesn't do evolutionary biology, but his insights, on how we wish to love...

11 Kesä 202140min

Adam Smith Part 2;  Morality Unlike Ours

Adam Smith Part 2; Morality Unlike Ours

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Private Vices are public virtues, so says Mandeville in the Fable of the Bees. No, David Hume argues, the frame is wrong. Strong bounda...

4 Kesä 202132min

62. Adam Smith Part 1; Einstein, Newton, God and Poverty

62. Adam Smith Part 1; Einstein, Newton, God and Poverty

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Adam Smith and his world view. Emerson said every writer needs a tough chaos deep soil. What was Adam Smith’s? We introduce the key e...

28 Touko 202136min

61. 1688 The Glorious Revolution Part 2; Only the Fool is free

61. 1688 The Glorious Revolution Part 2; Only the Fool is free

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We go through the history of the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Marlborough defects to William of Orange. It’s a long episode because we s...

21 Touko 202147min

Suosittua kategoriassa Historia

olipa-kerran-otsikko
gogin-ja-janin-maailmanhistoria
mayday-fi
huijarit
mystista
rss-ikiuni
totuus-vai-salaliitto
tsunami
konginkangas
rouva-diktaattori
rss-subjektiivinen-todistaja
rss-peter-peter
rss-i-dont-like-mondays-2
rss-sattuu-sita-suomessakin
sotaa-ja-historiaa-podi
rss-kirkon-ihmeellisimmat-tarinat
historiaa-suomeksi
apinan-vuosi
maailmanpuu
tiedetta-ja-sirkushuveja-vanhojen-aikojen-podcast