Philosophy, Religion, and the Meaning of Life

Enlightenment Patterns of Cultural Mutations (1x17)

Air date: Jan 01, 2009

In the Enlightenment, a series of critical cultural changes marked the ascendency of secularism and the Heroic worldview. Consider the far-reaching implications of Martin Luther's challenge to papal authority, the victory of empirical science, and the ideologies of capitalism and the nation-state as new formulations of human identity.