The 18th Century French Enlightenment represented a considerable range of ideas and temperaments. Insofar as the key thinkers, or philosophes, formed a consensus, there were thematic elements around which they gelled and which they vigorously debated among themselves and with their counterparts in other lands, especially in Britain, Benelux and the German speaking lands including […]
Category: Moral Philosophy
Before confronting the ideas of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and other late 17th and early 18th century thinkers and what their ideas might mean today, it would be well to go over a bit of period history. King Henry VIII of England was the Tudor monarch who created the Church of England because the Pope […]
The King James Bible was published in 1611. This represented the single greatest act of empowerment ever and answers Jordan Peterson’s question (YouTube: 2015 Maps of Meaning 9: Mythology: The Great Father / Part 1, 42:05) about how societies can come about that aren’t corrupt the way most are and have been as far back […]
The 16th century saw two revolutions simultaneously that were to change pretty much everything. One began when the German Augustinian monk Martin Luther responded to Johann Tetzel’s aggressive marketing of indulgences by nailing his “95 Theses” on a door in Wittenberg, Germany in 1517. The other began when Copernicus circulated his cosmological findings and ultimately […]
Eleanor of Aquitane was probably the most powerful woman in 12th Century Europe. I will not go into her many accomplishments and connections to power in detail here. What is most interesting at this juncture is that in addition to being heavily involved in affairs of state herself, she sponsored the development of the poetry […]
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