Jeet Heer Retweeted Will Wilkinson 🌐
Some good thoughts here on the Enlightenment debatehttps://twitter.com/willwilkinson/status/1003695647353114626 …
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A minor addition... The Benthamite thread of the enlightenment gives you a basis for a sort of egalitarianism, but RIGHT AWAY the need to rationalize empire led to theories that different "races" were more or less sensitive to pleasure and pain.
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