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Post Medieval by Mike Prestwood.
Stories from 1500 to 1950.
The history of modern civilization.
New looks at the Renaissance, Enlightenment, and the rise of science.
MODE:
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4 minutes
of short abstracts.
10 key ideas.
1.
Quote:
- Max Planck.
- circa 1900.
Meaning:
Breakthroughs often occur when conviction gives way to honesty.
2.
Recent protests reflect the timeless struggle to limit power and oppression using checks and balances.
3.
Karma and cause and effect explore causation versus correlation.
4.
The Williams parable is about government. A response to the colonies in New England inacted the same restrictions they escaped.
6.
Existentialism was born in post medieval Europe, but it’s focus on the self and your own thoughts echos Daoism and Buddhism in the East and Stoicism and Epicureanism in the West.
7.
Roger Williams was a colonial separatist. He advocated for separating from the Church of England.
8.
With the motion of life, cause and effect feel certain. We see stable patterns. But Hume challenged this confidence, reminding us that correlation does not guarantee causation.
9.
Quote:
- Charles Darwin.
- 1859.
Meaning:
Survival belongs to organisms that respond effectively to change as environments shift over time.
10.
In 1610, Galileo Galilei used observation to challenge belief, showing that reality, not tradition, must guide understanding. His telescope turned the heavens from imagined perfection into measurable truth.
Done. Refresh for another set.
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