Showing posts with label Locke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Locke. Show all posts

The Enlightenment: Old and New

There is perhaps no social movement more instrumental in shaping modern Western society than the Enlightenment. As I do not want even a basic understanding of history to be a prerequisite to reading this blog, I’ll recap, in a nutshell, why that is the case. In this brilliant flash of intellectual awakening, the philosophical, spiritual, psychological, and ethical foundations for so many of the