leading an exemplary private life is the least you can do if you want to overthrow a ruling moral paradigm u know???
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getting a read through of diderots Supplément au voyage de Bougainville now his summary of tahitian society: "they are communists and have no fixed marriage. incest is common and denotes familial respect. all of this is awesome." try harder 2020 social revolutionaries!
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subsequently when diderots daughter hits puberty he freaks out hard and warns her against adultery in the strongest possible terms
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its interesting how tiresome the atheism is Abbe Meslier is a prime example (i kind of feel bad for him specifically) "oh my god this is all FAKE dont you see it" maybe these things were fresh 250 years ago idk even granting that tho whats new atheisms excuse
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Helvétius described the paradox of tolerance centuries before popper and uses it to condemn exclusively catholicism something to think about
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he also described egoism and utilitarianism lol why did any philosophers in the 19th or 20th century even bother get a real job
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I met the author of this book once, he wrote on this topic..(BTW very funny guy in person). https://www.amazon.com/Great-Philosophers-Who-Failed-Love/dp/0061969818 …
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man kind of want to read it but ill just get Mad
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You know they've spent their entire careers designing increasingly sophisticated rationalizations
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Even good old Benjamin Franklin seems like he was a jerk. IIRC he left his wife back in the states while cavorting in France for years. Un-uxorious behavior, to put it mildly.
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