From the Enlightenment: The Rise of Deism, Darwin, Kant, Hegel, and Lenin (History of Thought) (Remastered)

Podcast: CR101 Radio - Podcast Network · Cr101 Radio

Opublikowano: 2026-10-15

Peter Gay’s work is used here to frame the Enlightenment as openly anti-Christian a project to “erase the shame” of Christianity by replacing it with deism (God as distant watchmaker), then hardening that exile of God through Kant’s autonomous reason (reason as judge over everything). From there, Hegel “brings God back” only by redefining God as the historical process with the state as “the march of God in the world,” which seeds modern statism and the dream of a unified order. Rousseau adds the “general will” (democratic consensus as a kind of revelation), Nietzsche pushes the logic “beyond good and evil”...