The Enlightenment is defined as uhhhhhh the works of Bartolome de las Casas and James Baldwin, to the exclusion of all others
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So I guess the real question here is this: WAS Adam Smith a True Scotsman, or not?
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What you did there. I see it.
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Not a very fair dunk there, Jeet, because I don't say "let's ignore them", and I don't think Pinker is selecting his ideas arbitrarily. I don't think that's a fair characterization of what I wrote.
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Won't somebody please think of the baroque music here. I realize that besides CPE bach, JS had two other composer children who were amazing. They can deck the Rococo halls with counter motif that would blow Bertrands pipe out of his hands like a 90 mph gust of a hurricane
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For real! His son PDQ Bach was such an underrated genius and inadvertent innovator
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The age of reason began with Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan in 1651 and ended with Kent's Critique of Pure Reason in 1781.
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Chancellor Bacon might beg to differ.
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And Quentin Skinner wept.
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