Hello to new follows that .@MedMindset has graciously given to me. Let me tell you what I do: giant absolutist commentary threads on anarchist/communitarian academics. Today, we're going to continue
Alasdair MacIntyre's "A Short History of Ethics"
CHAPTER 11
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For those joining in mid-book: Last time we read about how the Protestant Reformation destroyed the foundations (Thomism) of Western Ethics and how Hobbes+Spinoza tried to re-justify morality with Geometry. If Adam Curtis had lived in this time, he'd have document the results.
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Those results are called "the Enlightenment," and this chapter will document it's ideological genealogy, starting with the 17c equivalent of American Sherlock fans and Che t-shirt wearers.pic.twitter.com/pocW7SM6bt
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The answer to this, to why the way you get to a conclusion matters, is that Hobbes used questionable logic to justify absolutism, and the result was John Locke.pic.twitter.com/BQJ8xnUCGR
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I think people overlook the impact of Hobbes positing a secular absolutism toppling religious hierarchy and tradition, even normie straussians like Newell realize this.
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