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Sure. Its not genetic or anything. Critical views towards authority have developed in the West in the past 500 years, with the rise of protestantism (as in "you
by yaix 15y ago
Sure. Its not genetic or anything. Critical views towards authority have developed in the West in the past 500 years, with the rise of protestantism (as in "you talk to God yourself and not through some father figure mediator") and later through Enlightenment (as in "use your brain, goddamit!"). It took us quite a while and quite a bit of luck, too, to get where we are today.
Most of those things did not happen elsewhere. Hence my comment above.
- netcan 15y agoI'm not sure that if you go back to post reformation or post enlightenment Europe you'd be doing any better than countries where those movements did not take place. Racial oppression the US between its founding (Jefferson & Paine or not) and relatively recently was awful. Women's suffrage and social equality spread over the 19th century, 200 years after Kant.