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How do societies of Europe and those influenced by European settlement understand and interpret the world and the lived experience? What are its underpinnings? What are these frameworks that have allowed homo sapiens, which are little more than hairless apes, to make remarkable advances in science, technology, forms of governance, communications, and so on?
Europe in the seventeenth century in many ways is our point of departure. Of course, this statement does not preclude what came before, but something remarkable evolved over the course of the 1600s that provided the intellectual scaffolding of what we call the modern world. And this is what Steven Nadler explores in this graphic history Heretics.
Identify your three favorite, most intriguing, and/or most controversial philosophers detailed in Heretics and answer the following questions:
Who are they, when did they live, and where?
Why were they controversial or heretical?
Why are they relevant in the twenty-first century?