1. This @jbouie piece on the whitewashing of the Enlightenment is, as expected, excellent:https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/taking-the-enlightenment-seriously-requires-talking-about-race.html …
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10. Why does the racism of long dead thinkers like Locke & Kant cause a scandal? Because it hurts the brand of Team Enlightenment. But if you're interested in history, not branding, you can handle fact of checkered history.
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He has certainly laid claim to the Enlightenment https://thebaffler.com/latest/peterson-ganz-klein …pic.twitter.com/vYSMUSOCli
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Is anyone doing so? Or is need to pretend u don't know what people who say today they support enlightenment values mean equivalent to insisting "Wait you support the Democrat Party&yr not a racist? Didn't you KNOW the Dem Party supported slavery and was against civil rights?"
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These people aren't just saying they support Enlightenment values but also that those values are purely good (i.e. David Brooks crediting Locke as father of "human equality, pluralism, democracy"
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But... a brand would be useful. Howzabout, "Human rights?" Not philosophically rigorous, but covers a lot of bases. But not empiricism & rationalism. I'm afraid I'll have to stick with "Ideals of the Enlightenment", until I encounter something better. Nice
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You have a point but the underlying desire is to distinguish their brand of “conservative liberalism” from the neo-maoism that is in fashion. The effort to find value in enlightenment ideas can be sincere even if impure.
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