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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 prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/the-w… twitter.com/AdamRutherford…
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Chlodulf Maximino
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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
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Indeed - and consequently, it needed "intellectual" justification, which they found without too much trouble.
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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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...because both also had and lived thoughts and ideas that i cherish.
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Dr Adam Rutherford
@AdamRutherford
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I think it was @kehinde_andrews who described the Enlightenment as White Man’s Identity Politics.
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Richard Brown
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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
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There is just one Enlightenment Value: reciprocal accountability youtu.be/jHyFREAKQec
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