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197: Sympathy and Satan

Classical Stuff You Should Know

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What Is the Mission of the Enlightenment?

Milton is a great example of the mission of what the enlightenment is trying to do, he says. Milton's got this new thread that we're going to pull and of course, maybe he couldn't say exactly everything he wanted to because of his awords day and age wouldn't have accepted it. But deep n he was kind of one of us. And so you cind of have these two camps claiming ownership. Ah, and then building out these sort of interpretive frameworks around the book. The romantics try to argue that by just being sympathetic, we can build a framework for ethics. What shreman points out in the book is that this actually starts down a really uncomfortable

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