Andrea Wulf
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625 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Jun
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So there's Immanuel Kant, who's never left Königsberg.
Not a traveler at all.
And then you have Foster, who's this traveler.
So Foster accuses Kant and says, how can you make these statements if you have never traveled and you've never seen any of these people?
And Kant replies and says, how can you come up with these things if you don't travel with a theory in mind?
So it's all about, do you start with an idea?
Yeah.
And then you find your proofs?
Or do you start with your observation, and then you form your theory, which I think was, you know, that was a kind of fascinating, which is, it's really the kind of, it's the, it's the battle of the methodologies, which are, you know, at the at the nexus of the Enlightenment, you know, what, how do we, how do we gain knowledge?
How do we form our theories?
So then,
After a while, he ends up in Mainz, which is only about 80 miles from the French border, about 20 miles west of Frankfurt, which
most people maybe know as a German town.
But he ends up in Mainz.
And then a few months later in 1789, the French Revolution happens just across the border.
And he watches this as if he's watching a kind of gripping drama unfold.
Suddenly, when the French revolutionaries declare war,
all men, of course, or men equal, they promise at least the possibility of a new society, a society which is built on the power of ideas and freedom.
And so Foster sees that there is the real possibility of a new reality just across the border.
So he's absolutely gripped by this.
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