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The Psychology of Totalitarianism with Mattias Desmet (WiM201)

The "What is Money?" Show

CHAPTER

The Enlightenment, the Idea of the Human Being

The idea that if we understand the world, we'll be able to control it. And this was exactly what characterized the tradition of enlightenment. People tried to understand how society worked - and failed. They concluded that rational understanding is one way to know the world,. but that it is very limited in its capacity to understand the word and to known the world. Allf all of them left it behind somewhere on the way.

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