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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Racism is obviously the most serious criticism of the enlightenment but i'm always tempted to ask these people whether they support Friedrich II style enlightened despotism or Rousseauiste homophobia as well
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Come on, the french terror was really enlightening. Might be why the enlightenment gave us Napoleon, then Louis XVIII...
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that is literally the opposite of what i explicitly said.
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Enlightenment is not an epiphany. It reveals itself in historical fits and seizures.
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I think the last few years have shown how much we miss platitudes about fellowship and the universal dignity of human beings when those platitudes are suddenly gone.
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Isn’t just one “enlightenment” either: heterogeneous group of thinkers w/ contradictory ideas re: scripture, miracles, government, freedom of expression, role of inherited culture. Telling how much oft-cited examples (Locke) have a decidedly reactionary or conservative bent.
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very true. also consider parodies of (early) Enlightenment-style systematizers in Voltaire and Swift--the ability to bring all of experience under pseudo-mathematical "reason" vs a certain amount of ironic skepticism toward such claims, both with strong claims to Enlightenment
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