The original 'original sin' is not moralising
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Replying to @AnarchicEvolist @RightModernist
I want more detail on that plz.
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Replying to @dill_irish @RightModernist
"Morality" is a 17th century invention
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Replying to @AnarchicEvolist @RightModernist
What would you say existed before then?
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Replying to @dill_irish @RightModernist
Good and Bad in the ontological sense
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Replying to @AnarchicEvolist @dill_irish
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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Replying to @RightModernist @dill_irish
Surely, but the words meant different things
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Replying to @AnarchicEvolist @dill_irish
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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Replying to @RightModernist @dill_irish
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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Replying to @AnarchicEvolist @dill_irish
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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