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Episode #140 ... Isaiah Berlin pt. 1 - Pluralism

Philosophize This!

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The Three Enlightenment Assumptions

During the enlightenment, method was known as reason. Berlin says that these thinkers came to work every day with the assumption that these answers would give us the solution to the cosmic jigsaw puzzle. He thought that people assuming they were true was emblematic of the pro science, pro mathematics attitude that dominated enlightenment thought.

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