Descartes and Modern Philosophy: The Birth of Subjectivism (History of Modern Philosophy) (Remastered)

CR101 Radio - Podcast Network · Sep 10, 2026 · 1h 7m

Modern life didn’t start with a “Copernican Revolution” it started when certainty moved from God and His created order to the autonomous self. This episode traces the real turning point: Descartes’ “I think, therefore I am”, and the dominoes that followed Locke’s blank-slate man, Berkeley’s “to be is to be perceived,” Hume’s collapse into skepticism, Kant’s prison of “phenomena,” and the modern drift into subjectivism, technocracy, and politics-as-providence. If truth is only “in here,” then law becomes a human invention, economics becomes optional, and planners become prophets. Ready to see…