Sounds like they didn’t read the enlightenment section of their introduction to philosophy text book.
The weirdest thing about all these "enlightenment values" dudes is that they seem to think the enlightenment was primarily about desperately clinging to the past culture and ruthlessly crushing any social movements that threaten the existing power structure.
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Or perhaps they aren’t familiar with Voltaire
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The only enlightenment work they seem familiar with is Edmund Burke’s “Reflections on the Revolution in France”
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There's a great
@jacobinmag article about how people don't understand the enlightenment... I think it's this one?https://jacobinmag.com/2017/05/radical-enlightenment-philosophy-spinoza-materialism-marxism …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I absolutely love your account btw.
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It's almost like they don't know what they're talking about
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guess it depends which enlightenment they're talking about
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The real end of history was in the 18th century
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well that *is* what "enlightenment" means
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You haven't read Chomsky,have you ??? He is an enlightment philosopher and he is as radical as you can get.
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