Sometimes I wonder if right-wing twitter's obsession with the family as the basic social unit is not some kind of prank we play on ourselves so that we can feel self-righteous when family members disappoint us.
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What would you say existed before then?
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Good and Bad in the ontological sense
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But there were still ideas about how to embody the Good & purge oneself of the Bad, were there not? A lot of Meister Eckhart is about this very theme.
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Surely, but the words meant different things
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So do you see the Reformation has having given birth to morality as we now understand it? Or was some other development the catalyst?
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Yeah I think tendencies in the late middle ages, early Renaissance, Reformation of course, nominalism, humanism, this continued in romanticism, Enlightenment, and so forth
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Certainly the Enlightenment sees the birth of the fully autonomous, ‘psychological’ individual, not guided by transcendent powers but rather reasoning (or failing to reason) everything out for himself.
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Yes, although I would argue that the humanism of the early Renaissance already did this
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But aren’t ideas of right & wrong as old as man himself?
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