Yeah, childless people are losers & have nothing to contribute to the world. Jesus for example. What a sissy. And Isaac Newton: a jackass. & Beethoven, Rosa Parks, Jane Austin, Helen Keller, James Baldwin, Gertrude Stein. None of them had "real experience of family life"https://twitter.com/yhazony/status/1130574657948737536 …
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As someone who is very much not an enlightenment scholar, I would assume that there were also individualists at the time who had children. I can think of more than a few modern political figures with children and very individualist worldviews.
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What Hazony is saying kinda sounds right at first glance, but if you stop to think about it, it just falls apart. Having children just doesn't really seem to correlate with how individualistic or communitarian you are
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I get that. But Yoram has hated the Enlightenment since grad school (I was there at basically the same time). I wasn't defending him, I was just adding info on his target. I said earlier I thought his argument was silly.
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I should say I was adding info on his targeting. He will use whatever argument he can find to bash the enlightenment.
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