This defense of Hazony doesn't quite wash since there are lots of childless people who have had a "communitarian view of things": Plato, Jane Austen (celebrated as such in McIntyre's After Virtue) & Rosa Parks.https://twitter.com/KrishLingala/status/1130593980746481664 …
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That’s what you took away from this thread? Seriously? That’s it?
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I mean there wasn't much to it. Just bashing childless and unmarried people and blaming them for hyperindividualism. A critique of great Enlightenment figures was a clever cover though.
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Ummm I feel like the point of the thread wasn't that their lack of family made them "losers," but that it could explain their veneration of the free individual as opposed to a more communitarian view of things
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But there are good sophisticated communitarian critique of liberalism and/or the Enligthenment. This was silly.
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There have been lots of childless philosophers in history (Socrates, Plato, to start with) who didn't subscribe to "blank slate." And Locke had many followers who had kids. So it seems like a spurious claim.
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Newton probably was a jackass
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True, but not because he was childless. The causation might have worked the other way.
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