<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/955531/open_sms">You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. </a>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 Enden. Primarily we cover Spinoza's views, and here we introduce the idea that we live in a fully mechanistic, fully determined world, where there is no room for free will or God's providence.

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 Enden. Primarily we cover Spinoza's views, and here we introduce the idea that we live in a fully mechanistic, fully determined world, where there is no room for free will or God's providence.

<a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/955531/open_sms" rel="noopener noreferrer">You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. </a>We look at the tragedies of Spinoza's life.&nbsp; The clique that forms around him.&nbsp; The tragi comic end of his friend and mentor Van Den Enden. Primarily we cover Spinoza's views, and here we introduce the idea that we live in a fully mechanistic, fully determined world, where there is no room for free will or God's providence.

132.  Radical Enlightenment Part 2; Spinoza, Part 1

The first season focuses on the origins of the Industrial Revolution or the Great Enrichment, we go deep into history to gain enough background knowledge to actually understand the various theories of the origins of the Great Enrichment.  Eventually we learn that we also need to know how the miracle was consolidated, as the many other close approaches to the Industrial Revolution failed.A kwirky style, but intellectually ambitious with the goal of understanding history well enough to understand the miracle that happened that one time.  It's gonna be a long series.

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The first season focuses on the origins of the Industrial Revolution or the Great Enrichment, we go deep into history to gain enough background knowledge to actually understand the various theories of the origins of the Great Enrichment. Eventually we learn that we also need to know how the miracle was consolidated, as the many other close approaches to the Industrial Revolution failed.A kwirky style, but intellectually ambitious with the goal of understanding history well enough to understand the miracle that happened that one time. It's gonna be a long series.

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132. Radical Enlightenment Part 2; Spinoza, Part 1

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