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In Jiang’s telling, Locke, Hume, Bentham, Mill, Marx, Darwin, and Freud each help remove the divine and reframe life around property, experience, utility, class, animality, or sex.
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Hume
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Jiang argues that the conflict between Plato and Aristotle informs the philosophical debate of Western civilization, visible in later rationalist and empiricist camps such as Descartes and Hume.
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Jiang says liberal arts education transmitted the Greeks to later thinkers such as Kant, Hume, and Hegel, making Greek reading the common education of later great thinkers.
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Jiang links Locke, Hume, and Bentham to a civilizational philosophy of property, weakened truth, and utilitarian pleasure that later becomes Western values.
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"It could fight a war against someone like Napoleon and keep on fighting until Napoleon was finally defeated. So it took six, seven wars,..."
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"...God -given private property right then you have people like David Hume which questions the very legitimacy of human intuition and the project of..."
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"that this is an unfair system which it is right so now you have to brainwash the people into believing this is a fair..."
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"then you have someone named uh David Hume okay David Hume and David Hume argued for skepticism and skepticism just says that um everything..."
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"okay if you if you take drugs and you are happy with it it must be good if you like spending money it must..."
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"Which is to say, the world is one of class struggle. It's not between God and us. It's not between the divine and the..."
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"...And then there are the empiricists, okay, so people like David Hume, all right? And for most of Western history, philosophers will go back..."
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"...All right, so in the future, we'll study people like Kant, Hume, Hegel, okay? we'll study people like Kant, Hume, Hegel, okay? Just the..."
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"...from. We discussed in the last class about John Locke, David Hume, Bentham, Mill, Marx, Darwin, okay? These were all thinkers sponsored by Britain...."
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"...okay? So John Locke said, private property is what's important. David Hume, philosophy is pointless. Don't think about God. Just focus on material wealth...."
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"But through just experience and only experience. Okay. Then Hume proposed a new idea called skepticism. And he goes in further. He goes in..."
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"...um, Sonoi is emphasizing the limitations of British philosophy, right? Law, Hume, Bantham, Mill, they're all limited. And so what the British need is..."
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Aristotle is not treated here as the solitary genius behind Western reason.
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