Weird, this AM a worker told me, "I hate Panglossian liberals who misrepresent the Enlightenment as uncomplicated progress, ignoring Locke's support for theft of indigenous land & anti-Catholicism as well as Hume's racism." https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/1282334711663165440 …
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You might think that would make his book properly comprehensive but as Pinker has said himself, no premise in his book rests on even using the term enlightenment, he could have called the book “secular humanism”, or “cosmopolitan liberalism.”
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And I doubt pinker would say he is in the tradition of the enlightenment lol. He’s just writing a defense of ideals:”science, reason, humanism, and progress” those things were argued for by enlightenment thinkers but also arose elsewhere in the world.
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If you don’t like that he’s citing humanism from enlightenment thinkers he could just cite Buddha, it wouldn’t make a difference.
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Y u no reply bro, I feel like I made some good points
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