Timeline for How does the Enlightenment philosophy tackle the asymmetry it has with non-Enlightenment societies/traditions?
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| Jul 30, 2023 at 14:42 | comment | added | Scott Rowe | The result that emerged from Game Theory is that the only stable equilibrium of cooperation is "tit for tat" - cooperate with cooperators and punish or rebuke defectors. If this fails, the only possible strategy is to never cooperate at all. So, it has nothing to do with any ideas or reasons, it is just math. | |
| Jul 30, 2023 at 14:34 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jul 30, 2023 at 7:32 | answer | added | user66933 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 30, 2023 at 7:28 | comment | added | Rushi | cultural Christian See this YT comment by Barnestm. Interestingly he dichotomizes 'cultural' vs 'believing' Christian showing that he remains firmly a cultural Christian: its only in Christianity that 'faith' and 'religion' are synonymous — one of the zillion indicators that English is Christian | |
| Jul 30, 2023 at 7:18 | comment | added | Starckman | "It's fans usually say 'religion' but address mostly Christianity and remain almost entirely cultural Christians while feigning to attack it." What does "cultural Christian" even mean? Europe and the US have a history which is marked in part by Cristianity, but not only, far from it. "feigning to attack it." well, it is hard to respond to this affirmation, because it is blurred and speculative. I feel your view is extremely biased, everything being seen from the lense of religion only, religion being used as a false nose for race. | |
| Jul 30, 2023 at 7:14 | comment | added | Starckman | 2/ "Although its grammar and core vocabulary are mostly West Germanic, it has borrowed many words from French, which represent approximately 28% of English words, and Latin, which represents about 28%,[6] and some grammar and core vocabulary from Old Norse, a North Germanic language.[7][8][9] Speakers of English are called Anglophones. " Wikipedia | |
| Jul 30, 2023 at 7:14 | comment | added | Starckman | @Rushi 1/ No. English is a mix of many languages "English" is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots and then most closely related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, Modern English is genealogically Germanic." | |
| Jul 30, 2023 at 7:06 | comment | added | Rushi | It suggests you question the implicit assumptions in your question, eg. (a) the Enlightenment is wholly a good (b) the Enlightenment is a liberation from Christianity (c) the prior state — explicitly called the dark ages, was a worse state [It's fans usually say 'religion' but address mostly Christianity and remain almost entirely cultural Christians while feigning to attack it. And even more than cultural, linguistic: If Arabic is Islamic, Hebrew is Judaic, Sanskrit is Hindu, then like it or not what we're speaking now is Christian] | |
| Jul 30, 2023 at 6:34 | comment | added | Starckman | @Rushi Ok but what is the relation to my question? | |
| Jul 30, 2023 at 6:32 | comment | added | Rushi | Yeah that's why I gave two directions: the second is one of (the many) activist-philosophers describing the Enlightenment as actually an endarkenment. James Cone, David Tracey... are some more. The two together in argument | |
| Jul 30, 2023 at 6:03 | comment | added | Starckman | One can from a scientific/historical perspective find the influence that Christianity could have had on the Enlightenment philosophy, but giving the primacy of the former over the latter is, IMU, a fallacy. The Enlightenment philosophy has been deeply influenced by the hellenistic civilization, by the roman civilization, by the Renaissance humanists, and of course by the geo-political situation of Europe. | |
| Jul 30, 2023 at 6:00 | comment | added | Starckman | @Rushi IMO, emphasizing the "Christian origin or identity of the Enlightenment philosophy" is a big fallacy, because Enlightnement thinkers 1/ where deist, that is, the belief in a supernatural power is dependent on reason, and the human life is independent from any supernatural will 2/ they emphasized the universal over the religiously/ethnical/cultural peculiar. | |
| Jul 30, 2023 at 5:51 | history | edited | Starckman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 30, 2023 at 5:15 | comment | added | Rushi | Rajani Kanth is a complementary view. Also here | |
| Jul 30, 2023 at 4:47 | comment | added | Rushi | What you call The Enlightenment, is really the fruits of Christianity — Tom Holland 《paraphrased and summarized》Scrivener's book is a longer summary | |
| Jul 30, 2023 at 3:37 | history | asked | Starckman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |