Anselm to the Enlightenment (History of Thought) (Remastered)

This session traces the “shapers of the modern mind” from Anselm to the Enlightenment, arguing that how we know (noetics) and how we live (ethics) are inseparable your faith quietly governs what you’ll accept as “facts.” Anselm’s core claim is simple but explosive: “I believe in order to understand,” because even our language of better/worse assumes an absolute. Then the lecture pivots: Joachim’s “three ages” (Father/Law → Son/Grace → Spirit/Love) becomes a seedbed for later revolutionary hopes, while Aquinas tries to “baptize” Aristotle re-centering autonomous reason, a unity-of-being framework, and a “blank slate” mind that opens the door to conditioning man by environment. From there, the Renaissance and Machiavelli sharpen the blade (“truth is what works”), and Descartes makes autonomous man the new starting point setting up the Enlightenment, which rejects history, dismisses cultures and institutions, relocates evil into the environment, promises “rebirth” through social engineering, and entrusts everything to scientific planners. The bottom line: this is not merely politics or education it’s a religious war of worldviews, and reconstruction starts by naming it as such.

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