257. India, Europe & Biblical Revolution | Vishal Mangalwadi
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Enlightenment & Biblical Underlay
- Western enlightenment thinkers, except for Hobbes in England and those in France, weren't atheists.
- The French enlightenment, characterized by atheism, ultimately resulted in the Reign of Terror and Napoleon's dictatorship.
- This suggests that the productive aspects of the enlightenment were tied to a biblical underlay, as seen in the Scottish, American, and British enlightenments.
- This insight questions the conventional academic narrative that attributes freedoms solely to figures like Rousseau and Voltaire, ignoring the potential influence of biblical ideas on the enlightenment's successes.
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