
EP. 08 The Classics
Uncancelled History
Are We Going to Pass the Baton?
Voltaire had his own priorities amongst which was to try to tear up the clergy. And David Hume was also trying to wrestle society away from beliefs in basically superstition. It's very strange that we don't just intuit that people from previous eras were working with different frameworks and that we ourselves are complicated, he says.
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