/lit/ - Literature

you've done the research by the sound of it, you tell us

>>10460586
>Follow a 1800 year lasting theological tradition
or
>Be a deist hipster

Jefferson is arguably the most overrated intellectual of all time. Most of his ideas were incredibly bad, and that's not even counting that he's one of the biggest hypocrites in history.

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>>10460611
If you had a qt quadroon or octoroon slave you'd probably want to plow her as well

be honest

>>10460586
this doesn't answer your question but Edmund burke was a whig. I never realized David Hume was a whig until I read your thread and started reading edumund burkes wiki.

In The History of England (1754–1761), Hume challenged Whig views of the past and the Whig historians in turn attacked Hume; but they could not dent his history. In the early 19th century, some Whig historians came to incorporate Hume's views, dominant for the previous fifty years. These historians were members of the New Whigs around Charles James Fox (1749–1806) and Lord Holland (1773–1840) in opposition until 1830 and so "needed a new historical philosophy".[16] Fox himself intended to write a history of the Glorious Revolution of 1688, but only managed the first year of James II's reign. A fragment was published in 1808. James Mackintosh then sought to write a Whig history of the Glorious Revolution, published in 1834 as the History of the Revolution in England in 1688. William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–1769) and Henry Hallam's Constitutional History of England (1827) reveal many Whiggish traits. According to Arthur Marwick, Hallam was the first Whig historian

>>10462200
None of this answers the question at all

Probably similar reasons Edison and Tesla, though each was an intelligent inventor, didn't get along even though we would assume they would have if there were not so much evidence of their feuding

>>10460586
What the fuck is that in your picture?

>>10462217
no shit read the first sentence of the post you quoted

Hume was Scottish and Burke was Irish, and yet not exclusively so - while Thomas Jefferson was an autistic pseudo-intellectual American, is it any question he could not handle the banter?

>>10460586
The virgin Burke vs the Thomas Chadderson

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>>10463298
The virgin French Revolution vs the chad Glorious Revolution

>>10460586
Because Hume was considered a Tory at the time due to his History of England, which was sympathetic to Charles I, a Whig bogeyman. And of course Tories weren't welcome in America (though Hume actually supported American independence). Funny how such a strong proponent of free speech banned books he didn't agree with.

>>10463445
And Burke was well-regarded by even his strongest opponents. Samuel Johnson, an unwavering Tory, thought Burke a "vile Whig" but also remarked that "you could not stand five minutes beneath a shed while it rained with him without thinking him the greatest man that ever lived". William Hazlitt, a supporter of the French Revolution until his death, made it "a test of the sense and candour of any one belonging to the opposite party, whether he allowed Burke to be a great man".

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>>10463473
very insightful I'm impressed