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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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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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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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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Or the fact that even Adam Smith thought their needed to be oversight of markets.
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neo-Wig!? You mean, this all-dead political party is rising from the dead?
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Also the belief in the perfectibility of man, which Pinker defines himself against in The Blank Slate.
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yeah, that somehow gets lost.
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That explains why Steven Pinker is such a militarist and Charles Murray's embrace of ostentatious consumerism.
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Absolutely. Para 20. of the Second Treatise: "For wherever violence is used and injury done, even if it is done by people appointed to administer justice and is dressed up in the name, claims, or forms of law, it is still violence and injury."
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