#1499 The Enlightenment with Joseph Ellis
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🗓️ 14 June 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Clay Jenkinson and Joe Ellis discuss the Enlightenment, a European intellectual movement that happened between 1680 and 1840 that believed in rationality, science, the rights of man and the possibility that humans could govern themselves. Joseph Ellis says that the very basis of the Enlightenment was truth and truth seeking.
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| 0:00.0 | Good day, Thomas Jefferson Hour podcast listers is always thank you so much for listening and also |
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| 0:12.9 | Go to Jefferson Hour dot com. Click on donate if that's what you choose to do you can write us |
| 0:18.9 | Give us your thoughts on the show suggestions for the show this week our special guest is |
| 0:25.8 | Joseph Ellis Joseph Ellis is one of my oldest friends now |
| 0:29.4 | One of your friends to David. It's been an enormous joy since the pandemic struck to have him as a regular guest on the Jefferson Hour |
| 0:38.6 | He has been one of America's greatest historians of the early national period |
| 0:44.6 | Founding brothers his excellency the character of John Adams passionate sage |
| 0:50.1 | These are extraordinary books that deserve reading and rereading. He's one of the best writers amongst |
| 0:57.7 | presidential and an American historians and so it's always just an honor, frankly, to have Joe Ellis on and and and he has an extraordinary |
| 1:08.2 | capacity to sum up |
| 1:10.0 | large concepts and movements in really succinct language |
| 1:15.7 | Yeah, he's great fun. You know at the beginning of the conversation I talked about and I didn't make this always I was in my garden and listening to a |
| 1:25.5 | Books on tape and I thought, you know, I'm we're gonna talk to Joe |
| 1:28.0 | I'm gonna listen to one of his books and I happen to have a copy of Founding Brothers and it you know |
| 1:33.4 | It's been a long long time that's books boy. I don't know how long 20 years ago. It's been a long long time since since I've read that book |
| 1:41.8 | It's just extraordinary and it's so timely |
| 1:45.6 | He couldn't have known when he when he wrote it how much it applies to where we're at now now back to garden |
| 1:51.9 | How give us the dimensions of your garden? Oh, you know, it's small. It's you know, I can't I think it's it you know like 30 30 feet by 20 feet |
| 2:01.3 | Or and then I have a couple of extra little spots here in there. It's small 16 tomato plants as I understand it |
| 2:08.5 | Yeah, you grow onions and carrots and lettuce. Do you grow corn? No, don't have the room for that you do though |
| 2:14.7 | And I've seen your corn. It's amazing. I've had some great corn crops. You know, I'm so far behind. We've had kind of a late |
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