In defence of the Enlightenment | Revolution ...

Marx and Engels didn't develop their ideas in a vacuum. They built on centuries of philosophical development, including the revolutionary ideas of the English materialists.Georgina Ryan explores how thinkers like Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke challenged religious ex ...  Show more

How did philosophy begin? And why are arguments from over 2,000 years ago still central to Marxism today?In this episode of Marxist Voice, Khaled Malachi traces the origins of materialism and idealism in Ancient Greece. From Plato's world of perfect ideas to Aristotle's more grou ...  Show more

The Enlightenment stands as the moment the West withdrew from superstition and found its faith in reason. Did it shift too far? In this classic episode, learn about this massive shift in thinking which we are still sorting through and coming to understand today.

In Enlightenment Now, Steven Pinker explains the impact of Enlightenment values – reason, science, and humanism – on the world. These values were instrumental in moving society forward, and Pinker worries that they are under threat.Humans have achieved a whole bunch of cool shit ...  Show more

Once there was darkness and then there was light. What was the Enlightenment and why did it matter? Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook explore the Enlightenment and its path towards reason, science, revolution and the guillotine. A Goalhanger Films & Left Peg Media production Pro ...  Show more

Ritchie Robertson responds to listener questions on the intellectual and philosophical movement that swept Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries   How did the Enlightenment change the course of history? Why were elements of the established church so bitterly opposed to it? And ar ...  Show more