131. Radical Enlightenment; The Crisis of the European Mind Part 1

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The first of a six episode arc on the Early Enlightenment.  We emphasize the clash of ideas, then the content of ideas, then biography.

This episode lays out the 3 way battle for the dominant philosophy between the  Aristotelian Scholastics, the dominate group in 1600, the moderate Enlightenment (which itself consisted of 3 battling elements, Cartesians, Newtonians and Leibnizians) and the Radical Enlightenment whose chief philosophical source was Spinoza.
We lay out key beliefs of the traditional Aristotelians, their method and then the beliefs of the Cartesians.  
3 episodes on Spinoza will follow and one each on Leibniz and Newton to finish.