Political Thought of the Enlightenment - a podcast by Daniel Dal Monte

In this episode, I discuss he transition from a faith-based, mystical view of political authority to a rational and secular order. In the Enlightenment, politics is based on the consent of the governed and rational self-interest. I differentiate between the French and American revolutions, rooting them respectively in Spinoza and Locke. I then raise a question: if the Enlightenment eliminates the transcendent from our understanding of man, where we do get values to inform our political system? Without a religious cosmology, where does value come from?

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