'Postmodernist theory tended to be a very blunt instrument, which resulted in the same general political points being repeated over and over.' Precisely. This is the stultifying orthodoxy at play. Those of us who value literature & scholarship generally must resist this.https://twitter.com/Gil_Ant/status/937280966602530817 …
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To “natural law” and pretty much the entirety of the Scottish enlightenment.
@JonHaidt work in moral psychology is pretty much on board that there is “human nature”. Natural law is the source of “rights that are not granted by govt. -
Of course there is a human nature. It doesn't necessarily lend itself to respecting the lives & property of other humans tho.
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Nature tends to kill other animals and eat them. In humanity, it tends towards killing them and taking their stuff. We have to reason this stuff out using consistent human needs & desires & our sense of justice & then set up systems to protect them.
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I suspect we come prewired in these tendencies and that reason only validates what our impulses want. We are tribal creatures, but I do think we get to decide which tribe we are in
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Well, yes, I doubt we disagree on elephants and riders. Just talked about this & Areo publishing it in couple of days. But we produced good laws & systems of ethics & government between us anyway. Not sure how second sentence relates.
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Will try given space limits. This sentence:”placed there by Nature Herself in the form of philosophically reasoned-out Natural Law, despite the demonstrated meaninglessness of this term and its distinctness from anything established by the natural sciences.” Is a direct challenge
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