/lit/ - Literature

>>12621039
>No, I just don't think bigots have any place in the modern lexicon.
that's fine, i also think we shouldn't ask for moral puritanism either. and there has to be something more interesting than race also. i think time and technology fits the bill.

race and bigotry exist all over the place. they are grave human ills. but it doesn't mean conversations about other topics - ones that i think are much more fruitful - need to be subordinated to expectations that philosophers must also be paragons of virtue as virtue is construed in the 21C.

do you extend this logic to Plato, Kant, Descartes and Heidegger (don't answer this, it's rhetorical)? they all had beliefs that would have been fairly questionable by today's standards. it's the ideas that matter. we can all discuss these. character assessments are not required.

ideas > feels

>>12621060
hyuk hyuk