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Philip Ball
Always good to see reminders that those who bang on about "Enlightenment values" don't actually mean "what leading figures of the Enlightenment actually said". And yes, I am thinking of this
In this week’s podcast, our guests discuss the central argument of Pinker’s new book
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Chlodulf Maximino 2. velj
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Remember that Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe was an unabashed slaver. This was a perfectly acceptable trade for progressive thinkers at the time apparently.
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Philip Ball 2. velj
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Indeed - and consequently, it needed "intellectual" justification, which they found without too much trouble.
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°christoph 2. velj
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agreed. by todays criteria, jean marie arouet aka voltaire was a fully blown racist (besides being a successfull entrepreneur with swiss clocks, no causality here though). also a racist was the revered immanuel kant. both cases trouble me a lot...
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°christoph 2. velj
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...because both also had and lived thoughts and ideas that i cherish.
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Dr Adam Rutherford 2. velj
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I think it was who described the Enlightenment as White Man’s Identity Politics.
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Richard Brown 2. velj
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I studied Cultural Studies nearly 40 years ago and all this was covered in detail.
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Gordon Wells 2. velj
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There is just one Enlightenment Value: reciprocal accountability
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