Spencer in particular seems to be caught up in this miscalculation of Christianity, to him the solution of a "post"-Christian west is not to deny and challenge its voracity, but to dive headlong into it, with some half-Nietzschean, half-LARPagan justification for doing so.
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could you explain the "post-Hegelian" understanding of Christianity
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Well the kojevian sort of thinking the left and some members of the right have adopted, that liberalism on its way towards the end of history utopia had to shed its Christian skin and actively vivisect metaphysics in order to "progress" beyond the contradictions present in
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A world where both Christianity and liberalism share common space over the mass zeitgeist, hence the term "post-Christian" society. Liberalism has to mutate itself and allow for illiberal elements to sort of prop it up as moldbug said.
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Is 1. a "flaw"? Nrx specifically blames Puritanism and not Christianity in general for progressivism
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In terms of cryptocalvinism yes, as a secular and political perversion of predominantly Anglo-American Christianity, I'm just critiquing the notion that one type of metaphysical universalism (ecumenical Christianity) translated to the political universalism of liberalism.
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