69. Adam Smith Part 8; John Locke and the Triumph of Reason

69. Adam Smith Part 8; John Locke and the Triumph of Reason

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Completing our Adam Smith arc with the end of the ideology of Calvinism. Its replacement with the idea that God is good and the happiness of mankind is God’s purpose, allowed Hume and Smith to encode the principles of Christian love into a Newtonian framework. Safely encased in a Newtonian system, Smith’s ideas could survive the rise of atheism. This is the intellectual end point of leaving medieval morality behi...

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Birmingham Riots and Chaos caused by the French Revolution

Birmingham Riots and Chaos caused by the French Revolution

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The Priestly Riots, also known as the Birmingham Riots, were part of the Church and King riots, that were part of the disgust reaction ag...

31 Jul 202449min

The French Revolution and Britain

The French Revolution and Britain

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The French Revolution was the most exciting thing to ever happen for some radical intellectuals. But gradually the murderyness, the chao...

17 Jul 202427min

French Revolution; Calendars, Cults and Acute Pain

French Revolution; Calendars, Cults and Acute Pain

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We close the French Revolution at the Thermidorean Reaction and the execution of Robespierre. We treat the conspiracy to overthrow Robes...

3 Jul 202435min

145.  French Revolution Part 3; The Terror

145. French Revolution Part 3; The Terror

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Only 24% of French priests are willing to take the constitutional oath putting their allegiance to the state above that to Jesus and the ...

26 Jun 202438min

144.  The French Revolution: To Kill a King

144. The French Revolution: To Kill a King

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Only 24% of French priests are willing to take the constitutional oath putting their allegiance to the state above that to Jesus and the ...

19 Jun 202449min

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 an...

12 Jun 202443min

The Regency Crisis of 1788 - 1789

The Regency Crisis of 1788 - 1789

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The Regency Crisis shines a light British Resiliency during the Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. We end up in a situation whe...

29 Mai 202434min

Nootka Sound Crisis of 1790

Nootka Sound Crisis of 1790

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The Nootka Sound Crisis of 1790 has a confrontation of 4 powers in the Pacific Northwest; Britain, Spain, Russia and America. This is pr...

15 Mai 202428min

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