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Conservatives: Get Over the Dark Ages [Open College transcript]

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We’re now posting serially at thinkspot the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Here’s the fifth: OC5: Conservatives: Get Over the Dark Ages. “It’s a faux pas in some intellectual circles—mostly conservative ones—to say that there was a Dark Ages in European history. …” Here is the timeline-image I refer to in the podcast/transcription. Click […]

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Defining modernism and pre-modernism

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Intellectual systems and movements are defined philosophically by means of their characteristic claims in the five major branches of philosophy: metaphysics, epistemology, human nature, ethics, and politics. As historical movements, they are defined by the time of their formulation and most vigorous activity. So in the following table I offer a definitions of pre-modernism and

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