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Podcast: Professor Lan.AI Explores Humanity
Episode: Lecture 46: Enlightenment Philosophers - From Descartes to Kant
Description: Every era has a zeitgeist, a defining spirit or mood, and the 17th to the 18th century was under the sway of the Enlightenment period, a remarkable epoch that was a pendulum swing from faith-based decision making towards reason, logic, and empirical evidence.
Started principally in Europe, in the backdrop of an age marked by the Scientific Revolution, religious conflicts, discoveries of new lands, societies were beginning to question established norms, customs, and authorities. The Enlightenment - or Age of Reason as it's often called - was a philosophical movement that sought to shine...