two things that are notable about the "wokism" genealogies on the right: one, they don't situate it in any kind of social or historical context, it's just "a guy made a bad idea happen" and two, they pretty much never credit it to a black person
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I don't think that's where this one is coming from tho, it's Ayn Rand people
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Allen C. Guelzo is some sort West Coast Straussian isn't he?
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Hard to keep the founders, but remove the Enlightenment, but that’s not my problem….
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There is a even less thoughtful possibility, believe it or not: that is was a second-hand Ayn Rand take from someone who had only slight knowledge of philosophy. West Coast Straussians are enamored with Founders’ Enlightenment, as they understand it.
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I don't think that's right. There's at least as much Catholicism in the anti-Kant genealogy. A version of the "nominalism screwed up the world, better go back to Thomas" thing.
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Straussians see Machiavelli as beginning of Enlightenment, and Kant as a last-ditch attempt to preserve ancient morality (primacy of duty) against its modern destruction (albeit on modern ground)
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