127 American Enlightenments

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

Earlyrepublic, History, Benfranklin, Society & Culture, Warforindependence, Earlyamericanrepublic, Earlyamericanhistory, Education, Colonialamerica, Americanrevolution, Ushistory, Benjaminfranklin

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🗓️ 28 March 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In many ways, the Enlightenment gave birth to the United States. Enlightened ideas informed protests over imperial governance and taxation and over whether there should be an American bishop.

If we want to understand early America, we need to understand the Enlightenment.

Caroline Winterer, a Professor of History at Stanford University and author of American Enlightenments: Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason, takes us through her ideas about the Enlightenment and how it influenced early America.

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0:00.0	This episode of Ben Franklin's world is brought to you by Delanceyplace.com.
0:05.0	Delanceyplace.com's free daily emails offer thought-provoking excerpts from history books.
0:10.0	For example, one of Delanceyplace.com's emails contained an excerpt from Eric Shellrus and Age of Infidels.
0:16.2	The email highlighted that between the 1770s and 1830s, many Americans proclaimed a belief in Deism.
0:22.6	Deists believed in two basic points.
0:24.8	First, they accepted the existence of God,
0:27.2	but rejected Trinitarian theology.
0:29.6	Second, they denied that the Christian Bible
0:31.7	contained a special divine revelation of God's will.
0:34.8	Basically, deists rejected supernatural revelation in favor of reason as the only source of true
0:40.6	religious knowledge. Today we view Theist theology as keeping with the philosophy of the
0:45.6	Enlightenment, but at the time many Christian ministers excoriated deists as heretics and infidels.
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1:09.0	Welcome to Ben Franklin's world
1:11.0	podcast about early American history with Liz Covert.
1:15.7	The study of history is key to understanding who we are and how we can affect the better future.
1:21.2	Ben Franklin's World will introduce you to historical people and events that have impacted
1:25.7	and shaped our present day world.
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