A condensed history of the ideas that led to the secular world and the interesting connections to Buddha from my forthcoming book, Dangerous Ideas.
See my Medium blog for the introduction to my book, in progress, Dangerous Ideas: [ Ссылка ]
My first book, Manifest Insanity, on the evolution of Judeo-Christianity, published under my previous pseudonym: [ Ссылка ]
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Video chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:21 Contextual background
1:45 Persian conquest of the Indus Valley & Ionian Greece
2:19 Birth of Greek philosophy
3:32 Alexander & Pyrrho
4:16 Epicurus
5:21 Lucretius
6:02 Sextus Empiricus
7:49 Rediscovery of Lucretius and Epicureanism
8:23 Hobbes & Spinoza
9:28 Spinoza the Epicurean/Buddhist
10:09 Spinoza & the Enlightenment
10:57 Mach, Einstein & The Middle Way
11:41 Summary
