World Civ-Enlightenment Archives - Daniel Aaron Lazar Fri, 12 Jun 2020 18:04:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke https://daniellazar.com/2016/01/31/the-man-who-made-america-reason-religion-and-the-brilliant-mind-of-john-locke/ Sun, 31 Jan 2016 14:01:16 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5513 Locke’s Two Treatises of Government appeared in December of 1689. It began with a full-throated refutation of the hereditary, divine right of kings, and a scathing dismissal of Scriptural justifications for such power, such as claims by kings to be descended from Adam. The second essay outlined a civil society in which all men were … Continue reading The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke →

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]]> Grade 9 Enlightenment Lectures https://daniellazar.com/2015/12/11/grade-9-enlightenment-lectures/ Fri, 11 Dec 2015 05:47:58 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5462 I’ve combined all your Power Point lectures. You may view them here.

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]]> Lecture: The Enlightenment: Constructing a New Paradigm of Man and Society https://daniellazar.com/2015/11/08/lecture-the-enlightenment-constructing-a-new-paradigm-of-man-and-society/ Sun, 08 Nov 2015 08:16:14 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5442 My lecture outline: Operational Definition The Road to Enlightenment The State of Nature Enlightened Governance Enlightened Economics Enlightened Education Enlightenment vs. Religion Challenges to Enlightenment Here is the Power Point

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]]> What Is Enlightenment? Immanuel Kant, 1784 https://daniellazar.com/2012/03/11/what-is-enlightenment-immanuel-kant-1784/ Sun, 11 Mar 2012 07:06:07 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=3501 Enlightenment is a person’s emergence from his self-sustained dependency.  “Dependency” is the inability to make use of one’s intellect without the supervision of another.  One’s dependency is “self-sustained” when its cause lies not in defect of intellect but in lack of the decisiveness and courage to make use of one’s mind without the direction of … Continue reading What Is Enlightenment? Immanuel Kant, 1784 →

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]]> Voltaire: On Religion https://daniellazar.com/2012/03/11/voltaire-on-religion/ Sun, 11 Mar 2012 07:04:33 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=3498 “I meditated last night; I was absorbed in the contemplation of nature; I admired the immensity, the course, the harmony of these infinite globes which the vulgar do not know how to admire…” His meditation led him to a scathing indictment of religion. Discussion questions at end of the reading.

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]]> Jean Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, 1763 https://daniellazar.com/2012/03/11/jean-jacques-rousseau-the-social-contract-1763/ Sun, 11 Mar 2012 07:01:35 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=3493 Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains. This man believes that he is the master of others, and still he is more of a slave than they are. How did that transformation take place? I don’t know. How may the restraints on man become legitimate? I do believe I can answer that … Continue reading Jean Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, 1763 →

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]]> The Limits of Enlightenment: A Modest Proposal https://daniellazar.com/2012/03/11/the-limits-of-enlightenment-a-modest-proposal/ Sun, 11 Mar 2012 06:54:19 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=3487 A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick Jonathan swift demonstrates the limits of Enlightenment dogma in this masterful and hilarious essay.

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]]> The French Revolution: Ideas and Ideologies https://daniellazar.com/2012/03/10/the-french-revolution-ideas-and-ideologies/ Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:17:20 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=3444 The philosophe may have laid the egg, but was the bird hatched of a different breed? Maurice Cranston discusses the intellectual origins and development of the French Revolution. (History Today)

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]]> Free Will? https://daniellazar.com/2011/05/20/free-will/ Fri, 20 May 2011 10:00:47 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=2484 Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the problem of free will – the extent to which we are able to choose our actions.

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]]> Fun with Kant https://daniellazar.com/2011/04/13/fun-with-kant/ Wed, 13 Apr 2011 03:14:37 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=2409 The Kant Song: Kant Attack Ad:

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