Enlightenment, Science, and Political Authorship (Prof. Avi Lifschitz)
Oct 27, 2018•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode description
Where did Enlightenment take place in the eighteenth century? Why were Enlightenment thinkers interested in the origins of language and the workings of the human mind? And can political rulers also be philosophers?
Avi Lifschitz talked to us about science, aesthetics, politics and philosophy in eighteenth century Europe, about scholarship then and now, and about the legacies of Enlightenment thinking for our own time.
