The Enlightenment happened because of the dispute between Franciscans and Jesuits about whether or not Confucius was in Heaven.
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Whoa, interesting… where can I read about that?
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Vividness piece on invention of meditation blew my mind. I guess one should be sceptical when something confirms what you always suspected, but.. this was what I suspected!
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Industrial Commerce is the source of the modern world, not enlightenment.
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The main idea of the enlightenment is that virtue is independent of the society/club/birth of the person who has it. The sciencey stuff was a consequence of that. The virtue of an honest experiment.
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In the commercial world of the 1500s, the guy in China who sold Spanish speaking parrots for export in exchange for Mexican silver, like creative commercial people everywhere, ripped a hole in reality long before the idea of culture was invented (1880s at the earliest).
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