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To: Retain Mike

The Enlightenment ideals you speak of were formulated early on. Since then the Enlightenment continued forward to give us Hegel, Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, Rawls, Dewey, Rorty, etc. I guess you can pick and choose which Enlightenment thinkers you believe, but the progressives have chosen other philosophers to follow. The Enlightenment didn’t stop in the 1700’s but continues to this day for good and ill. The Enlightenment is a Pandora’s box. It gave us the Apollo missions and mustard gas.


20 posted on 07/18/2021 6:59:38 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

I said Classical Christian faith invigorated much of the Enlightenment. Other “religions” stimulated much of the rest of the thought.


21 posted on 07/18/2021 8:29:44 AM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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