ASR phrase used here for the Scientific Revolution: the movement from direct access to God and divine law into methods for knowing truth.
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Second Revolution
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...in the future, there's a Renaissance, which then leads to the Second Revolution, the Enlightenment, the Age of Conquest, where Europe will span out..."
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"Okay, good morning. So today we do the Second Revolution, okay? And as I mentioned in previous classes, it was really Dante who helped..."
"...be able to speak with God directly through the Bible. The Second Revolution, it's really about how can we know God, okay? That's the..."
"...in the future, there's a Renaissance, which then leads to the Second Revolution, the Enlightenment, the Age of Conquest, where Europe will span out..."
"...the Renaissance, it's also the source for the Protestant Reformation, the Second Revolution, the Enlightenment, modernity itself. It changed the entire world by itself...."
"...Okay? These are, of course, the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Second Revolution. Now, as these things are happening, what else is happening is..."
"...write, it gives rise to the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, the Second Revolution, okay? And the gunpowder allows Europe to conquer the entire world...."
"...is really an intellectual revolution first and foremost. Okay, so the Second Revolution happens, and what drives it, okay? There are three major forces..."
"...So science solves all three problems, okay? Okay. So, again. The Second Revolution. The Second Revolution. The best way to remember the Second Revolution..."
"...very famous chemist. Okay. Basic background into the history of the Second Revolution. Today we are asking ourselves a very deep question. So the..."
"...give rise to things like the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, the Second Revolution, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution. Okay? So this marked a revolution..."
"...that make sense? Okay. And then, when we talk about the Second Revolution, the main idea of the Second Revolution is the institutionalization of..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
The French Revolution is not introduced as politics first.
Gunpowder is not powerful because it makes a louder weapon.
Science begins here as a theological discipline of doubt.
China had the technologies that made modernity possible, then built a political culture that made those technologies inert.
The Divine Comedy does not defeat Virgil by denouncing him.
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