Charles Heywood says one thing that is correct, the enemy is the Enlightenment. However his definition of the Enlightenment is way too narrow. The key thing about the Enlightenment is that it rejects the notion of "imago viva dei," or man in the image of the creator. In this respect the Enlightenment cannot distinguish between humans and…
Charles Heywood says one thing that is correct, the enemy is the Enlightenment. However his definition of the Enlightenment is way too narrow. The key thing about the Enlightenment is that it rejects the notion of "imago viva dei," or man in the image of the creator. In this respect the Enlightenment cannot distinguish between humans and animals. The Enlightenment is the source of all the modern philosophical diseases: Empiricism, Positivism, Behaviorism, Libertarianism, etc., and it generated a similar opponent in Postmodernism, the core today of CRT.
Enlightenment has run both the Left and Right in loyal conflict opposition for most of modern history.. Classical Liberalism is from the Enlightenment, as well as Rousseau, Marx, Socialism, and Communism. The only major political person today who does not operate from the premises of the Enlightenment is Donald Trump. Thus he is able to escape the Right/Left categories of the Enlightenment. The U.S. was founded by Cotton Mather, and his protege, Benjamin Franklin as a rejection of the various forms of Enlightenment diseases developing in Europe. The inability of most people. who consider themselves conservatives, is that they are unable to distinguish the European Renaissance conception of "imago viva dei" or in the Declaration of Independence, our "unalienable rights" derived from the creator, from the Enlightenment and that is the fundamental strategic flaw of the Right.
Charles Heywood says one thing that is correct, the enemy is the Enlightenment. However his definition of the Enlightenment is way too narrow. The key thing about the Enlightenment is that it rejects the notion of "imago viva dei," or man in the image of the creator. In this respect the Enlightenment cannot distinguish between humans and animals. The Enlightenment is the source of all the modern philosophical diseases: Empiricism, Positivism, Behaviorism, Libertarianism, etc., and it generated a similar opponent in Postmodernism, the core today of CRT.
Enlightenment has run both the Left and Right in loyal conflict opposition for most of modern history.. Classical Liberalism is from the Enlightenment, as well as Rousseau, Marx, Socialism, and Communism. The only major political person today who does not operate from the premises of the Enlightenment is Donald Trump. Thus he is able to escape the Right/Left categories of the Enlightenment. The U.S. was founded by Cotton Mather, and his protege, Benjamin Franklin as a rejection of the various forms of Enlightenment diseases developing in Europe. The inability of most people. who consider themselves conservatives, is that they are unable to distinguish the European Renaissance conception of "imago viva dei" or in the Declaration of Independence, our "unalienable rights" derived from the creator, from the Enlightenment and that is the fundamental strategic flaw of the Right.