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 Apr 202438min
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 Mar 202444min
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 Mar 202440min
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 Feb 202445min
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 Feb 202441min
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 Jan 202442min
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 Jan 202438min
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 Des 202337min
