#1445 No Enlightenment, No America

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🗓️ 1 June 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

President Jefferson answers listener questions including comments about American views of British monarchy, Jefferson's thoughts on the work of Edmund Burke, and the importance of Enlightenment thinking in the formation of America. In the last segment of this week's episode, Clay and David are joined by Michael Khandelwal of The Muse Writers Center.

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0:00.0	Good day, Thomas Jefferson, our podcast listeners.
0:03.3	And thanks again so much, thanks for listening.
0:06.8	This week, President Jefferson is back
0:08.9	and answers listener questions.
0:11.4	One we talked about at Great Lengths
0:13.6	was a question sent in about Edmund Burke.
0:17.9	Burke was an extraordinary man.
0:20.8	He was part of the circle of Dr. Johnson
0:24.3	and Joshua Reynolds and Oliver Goldsmith
0:27.6	and James Boswell, part of that.
0:29.9	A great 18th century circle in London,
0:34.8	led by Dr. Johnson, who's one of my heroes.
0:37.6	Johnson, the creator of the great dictionary
0:39.9	of the English language in 1755
0:42.2	and the author of the Rambler essays
0:45.2	and one of the greatest conversationalists
0:48.1	who ever lived.
0:49.3	And he had his friend, James Boswell of Scotland,
0:53.8	so enamored of him that Boswell was able
0:57.4	to record Johnson's conversation
0:59.9	in a way that has never occurred in history before or since.
1:04.6	And so Burke was part of that circle.
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