This episode introduces an historical overview of the political, economic and social philosophies of the Right.
We look at the development of 'reason' and the 'reasonable' man who sought freedom, the pursuit of wealth and happiness.
How was the Muslim world impacted by these philosophical and political developments imposed on it through colonialism?
How do we understand these phenomena from the Islamic scholarly and spiritual tradition?
** For further reading, please refer to the works of the following conservative thinkers:
John Locke (political theory)
Immanuel Kant (enlightenment)
John Stuart Mill (social philosophy)
Edmund Burke and Adam Smith (economics)
The online services of the Encyclopedia Britannica, Stanford University and Wikipedia also provide very good summaries and analyses.
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