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Goethe

Goethe's Faust rewrites Job from a fear-inspiring story about God's unquestionable mystery into an optimistic Enlightenment story about curiosity.

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Reason Becomes A Religion

2025-04-22, day precision · Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason

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"Okay. And so Faust the book of Faust it's based on another book called the book of Job which we find in the Bible...."

Reason Becomes A Religion

2025-04-22, day precision · Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason

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"You take away his children. And he will curse you. And God says fine. I make you this bet. You can do anything you..."

Reason Becomes A Religion

2025-04-22, day precision · Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason

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"Do not ever believe you can question me. Okay. And then what God does is he restores Job's health and wealth. Okay. So it's..."

Reason Becomes A Religion

2025-04-22, day precision · Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason

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"...ideas underpinning the Enlightenment. All right. Now let's move on to Goethe. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He is considered the greatest German writer of..."

Reason Becomes A Religion

2025-04-22, day precision · Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason

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"...beast. Okay. What's important for us to remember is that here Goethe is invoking Dante. Right? Remember Dante in the Divine Comedy says that..."

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