Enlightenment, Finding Truth without God | 1001: Intro to Everything podcast #21 with Anton Matytsin

Associate Professor Anton Matytsin is a cultural historian of early modern Europe, focusing in particular on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. Dr. Matytsin is the author of The Specter of Skepticism in the Age of Enlightenment. He is co-editor, of Let There Be Enlightenment: The Religious and Mystical Sources of Rationality. He is also co-editor, of The Skeptical Enlightenment: Doubt and Certainty in the Age of Reason. His current book project, provisionally titled is A History of History: The Académie des inscriptions and the Remaking of the Past. Dr. Matytsin teaches courses on early modern European history and intellectual history, including Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700, Eighteenth-Century Europe, The Scientific Revolution, The French Revolution, and Intellectual History of Europe, Renaissance to Modern.OUTLINE:0:00 - Intro 1:46 - What is Enlightenment? 14:06 - Torture, animal rights, and mind-body debates 30:37 - Religion, morality, and toleration 37:58 - Kings, authority, and toleration 40:33 - Social contract 46:47 - Skepticism and the Enlightenment 55:35 - Practical reason and uncertainty 1:00:52 - History and historical skepticism 1:05:59 - Academy of Inscriptions 1:11:54 - How future historians will view us 1:16:03 - Personal influence of the Enlightenment 1:22:07 - GratefulnessEPISODE LINKS:UF Profile: https://history.ufl.edu/directory/anton-matytsin/Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Kw32YrcAAAAJ&hl=enAmazon books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B01M5E0MVCPODCAST INFO:Spotify Episodes: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7lIxLKAKO8pDt6vkmU7TBXSpotify Creator Profile: https://anchor.fm/andres-pulido5Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFn7Fn5wd5p-quHz_YdoxrUryu0MRP6d0SOCIAL:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrespulido8/Twitter: https://twitter.com/andrespulido28LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andres-a-pulido/