And this speaks to a deeper problem, which is the total abandonment of EPISTEMOLOGY by the liberal-left (and therefore, mainstream society).https://twitter.com/LokiJulianus/status/925737254219403264 …
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what is the biggest argument against Islamic extremism: that Islam is literally false. They are killing people over stuff that isn't real.
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Christopher Hitchens poisoning himself into an early grave left them with no one who could vigorously articulate this point.
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And you need someone to say it. It can't all be just Unitarian-Universalist bullshit about the "true spirit of Islam."
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The Enlightenment corresponded with the development of "higher criticism" re:the Bible (Erasmus, Spinoza)
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that's not higher crit; Erasmus and Spinoza are lower crit (establishing and interpreting text), higher crit is whether it belongs in canon
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Common use is to describe Astruc-to-Schleiermacher afaik
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I thought people generally saw Erasmus as first higher critic because he invented translations based on outside texts
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there's like a "six degrees of Ludwig Feuerbach" game ppl play where they look for antecedents of Astuc/Voltaire in Erasmus, Jerome, Valla
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but all questions about different kinds of exegesis go back to the Fathers; what was new in the Enlightenment was doubting the Nicene canon
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