So much for the Scottish Enlightenment of which David Hume was a leading philosopher. Once, this period was referred to as the movement to replace authoritarian dictates (Government, Religious and Tradition) with human reason based upon experiential and empirical logic and experimentation. After John Hume gets dropped, which ones are the next targets to fall to these philistines; Joseph Black, Robert Burns, Adam Ferguson, Francis Hutcheson, James Hutton, John Playfair, Thomas Reid, Adam Smith and Dugald Stewart?
In a generation will George Floyd be a martyr or a symbol of a momentary madness?
”Once, this period was referred to as the movement to replace authoritarian dictates (Government, Religious and Tradition) with human reason based upon experiential and empirical logic and experimentation”Which proceeded to give us secularism, the Hegelian dialectic, Marxism, the French and the Russian revolutions, and ultimately, communism and the present state of affairs. I cannot understand the obsession many conservatives have with the Enlightenment. Like it was a good thing.
Scotland produced a lot of outstanding thinkers. If they don’t like David Hume there are many other worthy Scots to honor. If they want to honor a black American, there are many to choose from who were not criminals and actually contributed something of value to society.