How the Enlightenment Works

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 18 November 2014

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The Enlightenment stands as the moment the West withdrew from superstition and found its faith in reason. Did it shift too far? Learn about this massive shift in thinking which we are still sorting through and coming to understand today.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
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0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
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0:31.0	Welcome to Steffi Shitno from HouseFourthWorks.com.
0:34.7	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:42.5	I'm Josh Clark.
0:43.5	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry R.
0:47.9	So this is Steffi Shitno.
0:49.9	The Enlightened ones.
0:51.5	Exactly.
0:52.3	The three of us.
0:53.3	Yeah.
0:54.3	No one else.
0:55.3	No.
0:56.3	We're the Enlightened ones.
0:58.3	I am going to go ahead and preface this with what I just said off the air.
1:03.0	This is a very tough subject to distill in a 30 to 45 minute podcast because volumes of
1:09.8	books can be written on the age of enlightenment and happen and have been.
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