Me (dumb guy): There are thousands of books using Enlightenment to mean a period in time & thoughts of Kant, Hume, etc. You (smart guy): Let's ignore them and define Enlightenment to mean whatever arbitrary ideas Steven Pinker welds togetherhttps://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1004426458368897024 …
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But these would have happened anyway. History was like this (racism, death and despair) before these ideas. They were just the tools at the time, as religions before. But they got us to free our minds from their context.
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No dude, they didn't just inherit bad ideas from past. They invented new bad ideas which linger to this day. Did you actually read Jamelle's article?
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