Can you elaborate on what makes critical theoy less of an underlying philosophical idea of western Civilization than whatever else it is you're referring to?
Philosophical debate didn't end in the mid 18th century. It's just that post enlightenment philosophy hasn't been taught in the west since the mid 1900s.
I'm familiar with critical theory. My question was not "what is critical theory" but why are the underlying philosophical ideas of western civilization? (I will say I was pleasantly surprised with the evenhandedness of that source, disregarding the last two paragraphs)
Like, Christianity is one of the underlying philosophical ideas of western civilization, and enlightenment era philosophers were quite mixed on it, so I'm unclear what the underlying concerns are here.
I'm confused: are you saying Marx wasn't a philosopher? Like, disagree with him all you want, but claiming what he did wasn't philosophy is like, a bit extreme.
These are words, but I can't perceive any larger meaning from them. Locke, Hobbes, and Kant also weren't alive to write such books, yet they apparently are philosophers? I'd appreciate if if you took the time to put together more than a single sentence.
Philosophical debate didn't end in the mid 18th century. It's just that post enlightenment philosophy hasn't been taught in the west since the mid 1900s.
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