Angus Fletcher
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 8 Jul
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In the case of the 16th and 17th century, there were these skeptics.
There were both the academic skeptics and the Pyrrhonists.
And you don't need to know too much about the difference between them, but basically the academic skeptics went around just pointing out that stuff didn't make sense.
you know, in terms of logic.
And the Pyrenees were much more rigorous and they actually used logic to break itself.
And so basically logic started to collapse in this period of time.
And this is when you get the Reformation, Martin Luther comes along and the whole system starts to collapse.
And what happens in these moments is there's both a sense of terror, but a sense of possibility.
The possibility is coming because the old system is breaking down, which is really exciting.
But the terror is coming because people have spent their whole lives only thinking in logic.
And in fact, they've only freed themselves from the old system by using logic against itself.
They haven't developed a new way.
And we're in that moment right now where we've all been trained on logic.
We see that it's not working, but what's the new way?
And back then, the new way turned out to be the Renaissance.
And what happened in the Renaissance is you had individuals like Shakespeare, but also like, you know, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, all these individuals, Machiavelli, who got back in touch with intuition and imagination and thinking as story.
And they said, actually, that's the way that you are.
live and create a beautiful world not by trying to build a computer that knows the mind of god but instead by
making new possibilities.
And so that's why art became the driving force of the Renaissance, because it was artists who first rediscovered that creative power.
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