The Enlightenment with Donald Clark
Great Minds on Learning
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The Enlightenment, the Spat Between Russeau and Dam Hume
Enlightenment, the term dates from the late nineteenth century. There's a whole new culture of intellectual unation as happening around scientific academies and literary salon people at maris style in france. Of course, the thinkers who were part of the enlightenment didn't know they werepart of the enlighnment. They mostly seem to advance their ideas by disagreeing with each other. So so rousseau neverma adam smith, we were going to talk about but adam smith certainly knew about rousseau. The scottish enlightement, you placed largely in edinburgh, tartley, in glasgo. And there was a birmingham enlightenment as well.
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