Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

But far and away the most straightforward Kantian influence on later racial politics was that he was an early proponent of racism white superiority at a time when (at least as I understand it) that was still a relatively new way of thinking about humanity. — PolitiTweet.org

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I think the only thing you can really say about this argument is that Kant is a *major* influence over virtually all of western thought and that all kinds of ideas are on some level influenced by some of Kant’s themes and arguments. — PolitiTweet.org

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But if you take the argument of this piece seriously and hold that maintaining enlightenment ideas requires us to believe we can obtain unmediated knowledge of things-in-themselves then that’s just bad news for enlightenment and the opposite of Kant’s argument. — PolitiTweet.org

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