Ep. 107: Uplifting Nonsense
Young Heretics
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Are You Endowed With Reason?
The western tradition is progressing down this path. It gets easier and easier to think that the rights just are obvious, right? Just reason, right? Reat the same reason that we used science, that's the reason that we can use to have rights. And of course, this is the attitude, the basic attitude that burke, edmund burke, excoriated in the french revolution. We're gon to return to burke in a second. Ut first, i want to read to you the declaration of the rights of man, which has a major french document from the revolution shortly after the storming of the bastille. I don'tkno about you, but i
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