Makers of the Modern Mind, part 4: Calvin, continued
The Propaganda Report
Brad Binkley
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🗓️ 6 January 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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| 0:32.6 | Music This is Monica Perez, and today we are hitting the fourth part of Makers of the Modern Mind by Thomas P. Neal, PhD. |
| 1:04.7 | It is part four. Part one and part two were Luther. These are the 12 makers of the modern mind, |
| 1:10.8 | the 12 men who put |
| 1:12.4 | together kind of account for how we think. There are people who are very influential, but as far as |
| 1:19.0 | taking a Venn diagram of not super overlapping circles, the other ones would be overlapping somewhat. |
| 1:26.0 | This kind of is, he said, the most efficient way to do it. |
| 1:30.6 | Luther, from what I could get, the Luther part was because you would be saved by faith alone. |
| 1:38.5 | Behavior wasn't, like, strict rules of behavior wasn't really the measure of a man and I kind of rolled in a |
| 1:47.6 | kind of subjective morality according to Neil, I think, if I got that right. Then part three, |
| 1:54.5 | and now part four is Calvin with the Protestant work ethic of which I was definitely raised with, |
| 2:02.4 | Neil says that Calvin wouldn't like it, |
| 2:05.4 | but the way it got morphed into today is kind of justifying the anything goes kind of financial capitalism, |
| 2:17.4 | like all the way to, what do they call it, |
| 2:20.2 | homo-economicus? So we are up to the second part of Calvin, and I assume that's where |
| 2:27.3 | he's, Neil is going to bring it home. Like, yes, this is the influence Calvin had on the modern |
| 2:32.5 | mind. So let's hit it. The reform of Geneva turned out to be |
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