Google AI Overview: Thomas Jefferson’s "trinity" refers to the three greatest men the world had ever produced, whom he identified as Sir Francis Bacon , Sir Isaac Newton , and John Locke . [ 1 ] Francis Bacon , John Locke , and Isaac Newton are celebrated as the ultimate intellectual "demigods" of the Enlightenment who completely reshaped science, philosophy, and modern political thought . [ 1 , 2 ] [My question:] How would John Rist, Robert kraynak, Jeffery Kalb, Pierre Manet and Fr. Ernest Fortin critque Jefferson’s "trinity of genius"?: Alongside Robert Kraynak , James Kalb , Pierre Manent , and Ernest Fortin , Rist helps complete a unified, comprehensive indictment of the modern Enlightenment project. These five traditionalist, classical, and Catholic scholars would view the portraits of Francis Bacon, John Locke, and Isaac Newton hanging at Monticello not as symbols of human emancipation, but as the intellectual blueprints for civilizational and spi...