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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Feb 2018

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      Countless historians have spend generations debunking this sort of simple-minded Whig view of history but Pinker doesn't care because he writes off the humanities. https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/962011654346043394 …

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    2. Ryan Alford‏ @ryan_p_alford 10 Feb 2018
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      Countless historiographers (including Herbert Butterfield, who coined the term "Whig history") have pointed out that it is an ideology that insists that the history brought us inexorably to the best possible present --it isn't a critique of the idea of progress.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Feb 2018
      Replying to @ryan_p_alford

      I would say that Pinker, who says things have improved by "every measure" isn't simply arguing for progress but rather something like Whig history.

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    4. Ryan Alford‏ @ryan_p_alford 10 Feb 2018
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      If he argues that these achievements are tenuous and historically contingent & they need to be supported and furthered by the efforts of people today, then that's fundamentally at odds with the core of Butterfield's concept of Whig history, which has frequently been misconstrued.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Feb 2018
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      I think the idea of historical contingency isn't really present when you say that there has been progress on every measure & it is due that one factor (Enlightenment thinking). That's actually more Whiggish than 19th century Whigs.

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        1. Daniel Dunne  🇺🇦‏ @danieldunne 11 Feb 2018
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          He doesn't put it all down to enlightenment thinking. Better Angels relied heavily on role of contingent social processes, as first outlined by Elias.

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