Enlightenment, Counter-Enlightenment and Classical Liberalism | Courtenay Turner and Stephen Hicks
In this conversation with Courtenay Turner, Dr. Hicks discusses the origins of the Enlightenment, the Counter-Enlightenment, classical liberalism and where we are now.
Courtenay Turner hosts a podcast where she boldly seeks truth, diving into a myriad of deep topics surrounding issues of health, fitness, medicine, philosophy, psychology, politics, geopolitics & sociocultural zeitgeist.
Her podcast can be found on X at @CourtenayTurner and her website is www.CourtenayTurner.com.
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
01:39 Preliminary Remarks
09:25 What was the Enlightenment?
17:58 Enter the Counter-Enlightenment
23:00 The anti-Enlightenment-Rousseau
29:50 Plato and Aristotle
31:55 Classical Liberalism
39:18 Kant and Hegel
46:14 Secret Societies
52:18 Why do some the the Enlightenment is the problem?
1:00:58 The Beekeepers
1:06:05 Politics is always about ethics
Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian University in Poland.
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Absolutely educational, endless thanks, Courtenay and Stephen. Learned a lot. It encourages to dive into the history of ideas.
Thank you for posting this detailed interview with Dr. Hicks.
Engaging and insightful conversation. Nicely done!
Excellent historical summary of philosophical underpinnings of slices of modern politics.
I'm much more worried about the violent irrational trend toward Endarkenment.
As a rational person I have to express my love for the Enlightenment. 😄
“I’m a child of the enlightenment.”
I'm just here to recommend today's Michael Shellenberger presentation on the University of Austin channel, which ties in with several of my comments on recent CEE vids.
Sometimes in podcasts the guest ends up talking too much and the interviewer needs to wrestle back control. With Dr. Hicks on the other hand, it's like, nah, go man go. Everything he says is both understandable and important
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36:56 and a few minutes after that. Notice the "smuggling" in of Popper's Trial and Error approach. This is a late (!) invention of the enlightenment, if you take the propositional form of ideas serisously. [Peacemeal-Engineering, instead of a holistic perspective!] Furthermore, notice the ambiguous way, in which the english word "reasoning" is used. It can mean, both, to reason AND TALK, or to use those faculties of reason, which are reserved to whst Kant and Schopenhauer called: "Urteilskraft", which is the ability to judge, and which us independent of your ability to talk, although it is, often, highly linked, and intuitively associated with each other, which is wrong, yb the way.
30:49 is called evolution but not by natural selection but by humans desire of a perfect social dynamics where the philosophers labels the idea and intellectuals groups keep working in them, from Plato and Aristotle to 2024 their ideas had become a different specie; evolution. 😂
Dostoevsky was right.
The constitution was destroyed under the Wilson administration. Lol
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The Constitution was destroyed the same day it was written.
Why do so many women "smirk" during serious discussion and debate? Makes me cringe.
Stephen Hicks is a true intellectual, but devalues his capabilities by appearing on these lame interviews; I did not see one spec of real intelligence, insight or forethought from the interviewer in taking on this complex and 'charged' topic. There was the standard babble on 'left' and 'right' positions but no real assimilation of his insights on how Kant can be critiqued from both sides of the debate - or how and why the word 'liberal' has become anathema some circles in the US. ...At some late point the show descended into 'secret societies' and AI Bots but it was too late for me to switch off and not be disgusted at the quality of this intellectual discourse