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[Anonymous No.18619984]

>It was a product of their time
Aka "I uncritically accept the current status quo as superior"

[Anonymous No.18619992]

This. European philosophers don't get a free pass for being racists, even if they wrote hundreds of years ago.

[Anonymous No.18620157]

You faggots are lucky that I give you the benefit of the doubt as a product of the times. retards

[Anonymous No.18620166]

>>18619992
>I uncritically accept the current status quo as superior

[Anonymous No.18620177]

I have never once really cared if the opinions portrayed in a work were sexist, racist, whatever the fuck, so long as it didn't detract from the overall work.

Case in point: Hesiod. Works and days is filled with constant misogyny, and to be honest it makes the work even better.

[Anonymous No.18620582]

>>18619992

Why not?

[Anonymous No.18620592]

>>18620177
If it’s feminist though… oh, I seethe. I seethe hard.

[Anonymous No.18620729]

The status quo is superior by definition, otherwise it wouldn’t be the status quo.

[Anonymous No.18620745]

>>18619984
You also accept the current status quo as superior. Getting your self worth from comparing yourself to a strawman of dead people is even more pathetic than getting it from your belonging to a nation

[Anonymous No.18621325]

>>18619984
This is called historicism. Leo Strauss devoted a great deal of time and energy to debunking it.
See Natural Right and History, Toward Natural Right and History, What is Political Philosophy? And Six Other Essays.

[Anonymous No.18621354]

>>18619992
>>18620166
The standard of what constitutes racism did not exist back then. they were not racist at the time.

[Anonymous No.18621370]

>>18619992
no free pass, just a call from the based department

[Anonymous No.18621951]

>"I uncritically accept the current status quo as superior"