1813 Alexander, Prussia and God Unite

1813 Alexander, Prussia and God Unite

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Trying to recover from defeat in 1812, Napoleon had enormous obstacles to overcome. But these were NOT obvious at the time, surprisingly to us, most of the great and the good expected Napoleon to win in 1813. Tsar Alexander had some very unusual motivations for a major head of state in the Europe of the time. These motivations, including the mysticisms of the day, are still fascinating. Swedenborg, Lavater, and S...

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138. The Unlikely Rise to Power of William Pitt

138. The Unlikely Rise to Power of William Pitt

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. William Pitt goes toe to toe against a large coalition led by Charles Fox and Lord North. George 3 is on firmly on his side, all the pow...

3 Huhti 202438min

137. End of the 2nd Hundred Years War Intro

137. End of the 2nd Hundred Years War Intro

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. A summary of the 1793-1815 period is provided along with brief descriptions of the themes we will be following. Intensity:WW1 level finan...

20 Maalis 202444min

136. Newton and Locke discovered by Europe

136. Newton and Locke discovered by Europe

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Newtonian philosophy, and John Locke, along with Francis Bacon has an exciting empirical philosophical package that took Europe by storm ...

6 Maalis 202440min

Gottfried Leibniz; The Last Universal Genius

Gottfried Leibniz; The Last Universal Genius

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The last universal genius. There are minutes spent just lightly covering Leibniz’s contributions to science and his place in history, th...

22 Helmi 202445min

Benedictus Spinoza Part 3 ; Radical Enlightenment

Benedictus Spinoza Part 3 ; Radical Enlightenment

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Spinoza’s conflicts with contemporary scientists like Boyle and Huygens center on Spinoza’s insistence on the primacy of philosophical re...

8 Helmi 202441min

133. Baruch Spinoza, Part 2, Radical Enlightenment Part 3

133. Baruch Spinoza, Part 2, Radical Enlightenment Part 3

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Spinoza’s philosophical framework laid out, along with several points of disagreement with the moderate Enlightenment Newtonians and Leib...

24 Tammi 202442min

132.  Radical Enlightenment Part 2; Spinoza, Part 1

132. Radical Enlightenment Part 2; Spinoza, Part 1

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We look at the tragedies of Spinoza's life. The clique that forms around him. The tragi comic end of his friend and mentor Van Den Ende...

11 Tammi 202438min

131. Radical Enlightenment; The Crisis of the European Mind Part 1

131. Radical Enlightenment; The Crisis of the European Mind Part 1

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The first of a six episode arc on the Early Enlightenment. We emphasize the clash of ideas, then the content of ideas, then biography. ...

27 Joulu 202337min

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