The Greatest Axioms of the Eighteenth Century Enlightenment

In my very first lecture i try to lay down the proposition that one of the great axioms of the eighteenth century enlightenment, which is what romanticism came to destroy. And that all these answers can be stated in the form of propositions. All these propositions, if they are true, will be compatible with one another, perhaps even more than compatible, perhaps they will even entail one another. And take in together, these proposition will, as it were, constitute that ideal state of affairs, that perfect state of affairs - whether or not it is actually practicable or feasible. If you have to do that, then you will grasp the fact that different ages had different ideals. These ideals were,