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231 | Sarah Bakewell on the History of Humanism

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Ambiguous Enlightenment

Enlightenment thinkers were capable of saying that enlightenment didn't apply to certain groups of people, including colonized peoples and women./nThe enlightenment was a period of great change and progress, but it was also very ambiguous in its application.

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