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Leo Damrosch · 2003
Bucholz's Great Course on the 17th-18th century European Enlightenment — philosophy, science, politics. Bridges literature/intellectual-history.
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What this book knows
The Enlightenment remade the self by dismantling inherited religious frameworks and testing empiricism, tolerance, and reason against the full weight of human psychology.
faith-and-doubt
Religious belief gave a reassuring sense of belonging in a providential universe, and feelings of conflictedness and guilt were explained by the doctrine of Original Sin.
GC-ENL-RC-007Bunyan was denying his own deepest impulses by calling them threats from outside, intensifying the very suffering his faith was meant to cure.
GC-ENL-RC-008self-and-identity
Social mobility allowed increasing numbers to change their status and redefine who they were; skeptical agnosticism became a possible option.
GC-ENL-RC-006Hume argued the inner self seems to be a bundle of impressions in endless flux; the cure for introspective anxiety is to look outward.
GC-ENL-RC-016calling
To labor diligently becomes a true 'calling' and a measure of one's personal worth; the capitalist is committed to rational calculation.
GC-ENL-RC-039Frugality and industry were focused on repudiating idleness; nature is a reliable guide, not a sinful obstacle.
GC-ENL-RC-040Illuminates
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