no the future doesn't.... etc.; this is boring dork shit
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Replying to @bronzeagemantis @ptcarlo
BAP tossing and turning in bed in recent nights, sweating, mumbling “no... no... enlightenment... dork shit... Nooo” as Hume torments him in his nightmares.
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Replying to @KANTBOT20K @ptcarlo
if you have to pick an era for inspiration/obsession pick something sexy like antiquity. Nobody sits in bed at night thinking about Hume etc. one way or another. This is an affectation picked up to appeal to academics and some media
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Replying to @bronzeagemantis @ptcarlo
Battle of the books, ancients vs moderns, its all happening again. Neo-classical bap, pining for integration of antiquity, the superior holistic man, bap reading Winckelmann, a closet enlightener? Spooky if true
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Its not about ‘picking an era’ this is stupid idea, not how you go about things. One must learn all of history, and enlightement should be studied not as arbitrary affectation, but to understand how modernity was created and what its flaws/errors are
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also there in an inner drive in philosophy: to study Enlightenment takes you back to Bacon and Descartes, to Machiavelli and Erasmus, to Polybius and Seneca
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Antiquity is the deep well to which our civilization has returned time after time to rejuvenate itself when ideas became stale or there was great danger. Over-focus on Enlightenment or 20th C or a few decades in 13th C or whatever is a dork obsession, has musty smell
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Agreed on overfocus, being an “expert” on rawls or arendt is as sad as “african philosophy”
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Not even possible to be ‘expert’ in enlightenment without developing love and expertise of antiquity. No way to understand Hume without Cicero or Rousseau without Plutarch or German Idealism without Plotinus. Eternalness of antiquity is AFFIRMED by Enlightenment, not challenged
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likewise no one is deeply steeped in aristotle, plato without caring about hellenisic and modern commentaries
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @KANTBOT20K and
no one can care deeply about herodotus without finding David Anthony and other indo-europeanists fascinating
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