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To: Altura Ct.
pure reason as simply being a “white male Euro-Christian construction.”

Actually that is a correct reading so far as it goes but is not complete. The Greeks who got into reason pretty deeply in at least one strand of their philosophizing predated white male Christian Europeans by a few centuries and their philosophy informed white European Male reason to a large extent. I guess they could be white male European pre-Christians

It is why white male Europeans developed Western Civilization and made it rich in a historically very short time. No other demographic has accomplished anything close to that.

29 posted on 07/12/2015 3:20:36 PM PDT by arthurus (It's true!)
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To: arthurus
It is why white male Europeans developed Western Civilization and made it rich in a historically very short time. No other demographic has accomplished anything close to that.

Which is exactly why the left hates Western Civilization with such a burning zeal.

69 posted on 07/12/2015 3:49:51 PM PDT by samtheman (Trump/Cruz '16)
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To: arthurus

“Actually that is a correct reading so far as it goes but is not complete. The Greeks who got into reason pretty deeply in at least one strand of their philosophizing predated white male Christian Europeans by a few centuries and their philosophy informed white European Male reason to a large extent. I guess they could be white male European pre-Christians

It is why white male Europeans developed Western Civilization and made it rich in a historically very short time. No other demographic has accomplished anything close to that. “

The other group that moved the process along, at least in the West were the (As C.S. Lewis called them) those bearded, platitude muttering Asiatic Jews. They did not use reason per se but bequeathed a system of morality to us that fits within the rational framework DISCOVERED by the Greeks

They were not white either.


97 posted on 07/12/2015 4:39:42 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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