Nov 20, 2025
A quick look at the major enlightenment philosophers that have a major influence on modern government and society today... Rousseau, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Beccaria, Smith, and Wollstonecraft.
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Nov 18, 2025
In this second part of our look at the Enlightenment we study three philosophers that promote the idea that government exists because the people allow it to exist... The Social Contract.
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Nov 17, 2025
In this episode we look at how the 18th century philosophical movement known as the Enlightenment will be an outgrowth of the scientific revolution and why France is considered to be the home of the Enlightenment.
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Nov 8, 2025
In this episode we look at the ultimate alternative to absolutism and check on a monarch's power... the Glorious Revolution and the English Bill of Rights.
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Nov 8, 2025
In this third part in our series on alternatives to absolutism, we look at the Interregnum in England and the rule of Oliver Cromwell, which really isn't all that much of an alternative to absolutism.
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