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Left Is Not Woke: Susan Neiman

Ideas

CHAPTER

The Enlightenment and the Pursuit of Happiness

The Enlightenment did not realize all the ideals it championed, but that's what ideals are about. The idea that people working together could improve human dignity and human freedom was a brand new idea. Futile hierarchies, slavery, the oppression of women were taken as natural in parts of the world well into the 19th century.

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