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This seems like an indictment the Enlightenment itself, instead of the critique of current social philosophy that I'd be interested in.
by rch 3y ago
This seems like an indictment the Enlightenment itself, instead of the critique of current social philosophy that I'd be interested in.
- hackernewds 3y agowhat is the current social philosophy for you?
- rch 3y agoIt's a broad topic, but in this context I'd settle for an extension of Whatmore's earlier book The History of Political Thought.
- sctb 3y agoFair enough, but one of the advantages of looking at Enlightenment philosophy on its own terms is that it's easier to perceive—and thus learn from—its failures. "Current social philosophy" has the disadvantage of being both current (so are we) and social (so are we), and so we suffer from a lack of perspective. It would not be surprising to me if one could identify weaknesses of 18th century thought that persist today.
- news4urquest 3y ago"If one could identify weaknesses of 18th century thought that persist today?" Quoting: So, people don't want to be miserable ? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/%22Zug_der_Düsseldorfer_Künstler%22_von_1837%2C_Karikatur_seiner_malenden_Zeitgenossen_II%2C_Andreas_Achenbach_–_Ausschnitt_Ludwig_Richter%2C_Raphael_Schall.jpg/683px-%22Zug_der_Düsseldorfer_Künstler%22_von_1837%2C_Karikatur_seiner_malenden_Zeitgenossen_II%2C_Andreas_Achenbach_–_Ausschnitt_Ludwig_Richter%2C_Raphael_Schall.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/%2...