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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Apr 2018

      1. David Brooks: "That belief, championed by John Locke, or a story we tell about Locke, paved the way for human equality, pluralism, democracy, capitalism...." I like that "a story we tell about Locke."https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/12/opinion/renaissance-right-gop.html …

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Apr 2018

      2. Brooks is not a stupid man. So he knows that the actual historical Locke believed in hedged rights for Catholics & atheists, denying land rights to Natives & slavery. So why uphold Locke as hero of universalism, etc. It's "a story we tell about Locke"

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Apr 2018

      3. People get strangely testy when I point out that "the Enlightenment" as celebrated by Brooks (and Pinker, Harris and, Jung help us all, Peterson) has nothing to do with the actual historical Enlightenment.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Apr 2018

          4. But to critique popular myth making about "the Enlightenment" isn't to say Locke, Newton, Voltaire, Diderot & co. have no value. Rather, it's that deserve to be understand in full complexity & not as smooth pavement on the road to glorious us.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Apr 2018

          5. As used by people like Brooks & Pinker "the Enlightenment" is a myth: a tribalist myth in fact since it involves covering up the history of those killed & dispossessed in the name of Enlightenment values. It's identity politics for elite centrists.

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Apr 2018

          6. What's also interesting about neo-Whig celebrations of Enlightenment is not just negative stuff that gets left out but also things like the anti-militarism of Adam Smith or the broader republican critique of luxury

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        5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Apr 2018

          7. One way to understand the Enlightenment is to realize it predated the democratic revolutions of the 19th century & certainly the anti-imperialist revolutions of the 20th. Those revolutions borrowed from Enlightenment ideas but also radically transformed them

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        6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Apr 2018

          8. One of the genuine great achievements of Enlightenment was critique of historical mythmaking (see Paine on Bible). It's a betrayal of that achievement to set up Enlightenment thinkers as Idols, timeless oracles of wisdom whose own historicity is avoided.

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        7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Apr 2018

          Jeet Heer Retweeted Helen Lindberg

          9. Again, this is not to say there isn't great stuff in Locke. Like the epistemology or this:https://twitter.com/_HelenLindberg_/status/985658673329524741 …

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          What I find perhaps most valuable is Locke’s devastating surprisingly secular critique of Robert Filmer’s hegemonical defence of patriarchy as the divine right of kings (and fathers). That is an Enlightenment ideal. But all that is in The First Treatise.
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        1. Renée Stephen‏ @ReneeStephen 15 Apr 2018
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          You mean they're not actually Classical Liberals?! My stars.

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        1. Taxes are good‏ @Aftermath8 15 Apr 2018
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          Locke was a hack and an apologist for feudalism and nothing he wrote has any place in modern thought.

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        1. (((★Timurid★)))‏ @Muggle_e_Azam 15 Apr 2018
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          The Enlightenment came with more asterisks and escape clauses than your cell phone contract, all written in at the insistence of the wealthy and powerful who made fortunes by exploiting others and would be impoverished in a world that lived by Natural Law without exception.

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        2. Sean Robinson‏Verified account @seanrobinson1e4 15 Apr 2018
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          Perhaps because your repeated footnote on the Enlightenment just looks like point-scoring. You don’t move past it to engage the idea the writers above are trying to address.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Apr 2018
          Replying to @seanrobinson1e4

          I don't think you can engage the actual ideas without first noting that they are putting for a version of history that is pure bullshit.

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