that's where the term Enlightenment comes from,

这也是启蒙一词的出处
the French context--

源于法语
and a century of decadence.

以及一个堕落不堪的世纪
Eventually it leads to a revolution,

最终引发了一场革命
but before the revolution

但在革命之前
there is a lot of fairly juicy decadence.

腐化之风刮得相当严重
So two different epochs and two different cultures.

这便是两种迥异时代及文化的交锋
British individualism:

英国的个人主义
Hobbes and Locke were methodological individualists.

霍布斯及洛克都是个人主义方法论者
They thought the analysis should start always with the individual.

他们认为欲知万物必先从个体剖析开始
You remember Hobbes, right--

你们还记得霍布斯吗
individual drives and fears--

个体动力及恐惧