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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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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this 'story of the Enlightenment' also is anti-universalist in a weird way since they weren't the first intellectual movement to critique tribalism or promote the use of reason
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No one actually disagrees with this. The Enlightenment that Pinker at al support is Enlightenment that has evolved through centuries...
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This is the correct take, because to say otherwise it's to believe that there's a straight line from the enlightenment to today. It wasn't a straight line, many of the people anti-imperialists were fighting were those who claimed to uphold the enlightenment tradition.
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That anti-imperialism is the correct progression of the enlightenment wasn't obvious to these people, and there's no reason to suppose the right way forward is obvious now.
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