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231 | Sarah Bakewell on the History of Humanism
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Humanist Strand of the Enlightenment
The Enlightenment is when you start to see the rise of scientific thinking. The thing that I think is specifically humanistic about that is that it's having a belief in the power of that to improve human lives, to improve human well-being. So one of the figures that leaps out in that is Voltaire, who really believed that we should do everything that we can to make suffering less widespread.
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