
The Philosophy of Stanislas Breton with William C. Hackett
Hermitix
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The Desire for Western Civilization
Like religion I think is a part of the modern secular experiment you know that this the desire for western civilization and it's in most influential figures in the Enlightenment era. You have to get rid of myth narrative understanding as a place in which the vision of transcending a vision of the good by which we can live together can be can exist, he says. We just need everybody to agree to pursue our own goods ourselves according to him. That's where our happiness will be found our but also Marx would say well the division of the good is this utopic future which everything's ordered to or moving in electably towards.
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