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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Patrick Lee Miller‏ @Plato4Now Mar 8
      Replying to @disitinerant @daveweeden and

      Being fully rational requires taking stock of the whole. To focus exclusively on good (or bad) is to make a partial judgment. To deny the Enlightenment's responsibility for anything bad after, say, 1750 while giving it credit for everything good thereafter is a double standard.

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    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 8
      Replying to @Plato4Now @disitinerant and

      One of the good things about the Enlightenment was the process that began where we test things and recognise the bad as bad and weed it out. We'll never get things perfect but this is the only way to get better.

      4 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
    3. Patrick Lee Miller‏ @Plato4Now Mar 8
      Replying to @HPluckrose @disitinerant and

      1/ That brings us round to the original topic of the thread: whether empirical science can offer sound prescriptions in addition to sound descriptions. If by “Enlightenment” you mean empirical science (already a slippery association), we have to be careful.

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 8
      Replying to @Plato4Now @disitinerant and

      Yes, we wrote 10,000 words on this where we avoided using 'Enlightenment' but spoke of the general intellectual and cultural shifts and developments of the modern period - science, reason, secularism, liberal democracy - under umbrella of 'modernity.'

      3 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
    5. The Dissenter‏ @TheDissenterYT Mar 8
      Replying to @HPluckrose @Plato4Now and

      But even the ideas that are attributed to the Enlightenment are much more ancient than the Enlightenment itself. Philosophically and historically, it doesn't make any sense to place their origins at that point.

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    6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 8
      Replying to @TheDissenterYT @Plato4Now and

      Don't then? I don't think anyone claims this, do they? This was why we needed 10,000 words. It's well known that the Enlightenment closely connected to the Renaissance which was heavily informed by Ancient Greece. This might be of interest academically but is not really point.

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 8
      Replying to @HPluckrose @TheDissenterYT and

      Those who advocate the continuation of the Enlightenment project or of modernity or of liberal secular democracy or of WEIRD culture or all of those aren't usually making statements like 'These ideas are unique to this time & everything that happened in that time was great'

      2:36 PM - 8 Mar 2018
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        2. (((Just a Flâneur))) [All Hallows’ #Blockchain]‏ @EnlightFundy Mar 8
          Replying to @HPluckrose @TheDissenterYT and

          Agreed - it's a straw man to say "You say the brave men of the Enlightenment invented this stuff out of whole cloth." >

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        3. (((Just a Flâneur))) [All Hallows’ #Blockchain]‏ @EnlightFundy Mar 8
          Replying to @EnlightFundy @HPluckrose and

          Let's not forget that little 1000+ year period when heresy got you burned at the stake and the aristocracy lorded it over the miserable proles. Heads rolled (literally) to change that, so that the supercilious could mock the resulting freedoms.

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        4. (((Just a Flâneur))) [All Hallows’ #Blockchain]‏ @EnlightFundy Mar 8
          Replying to @EnlightFundy @HPluckrose and

          Actually what am I saying: the Enlightenment invented science. Before 1789 particles would do whatever TF they wanted.

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