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1. Great thread. He is absolutely right. The idea of “human rights” or even “natural rights” are not Christian and never have been. They are misguided attempt to replace Christian moral teaching with one based in “reason.” They completely reverse the logic of biblical morality.
2. “Thou shall not kill” is very different from a “right to life.” One places an obligation upon me not to harm you. The other places an obligation on you not to harm me. There is incommensurable world of difference between those two formulations of morality.
3. “Natural rights” is an anti-morality masquerading as a moral system. In a true morality, the obligation is always placed upon me, the moral actor, to be responsible for my own actions.
4. “Natural rights” on the other hand, removes my own moral responsibility and places it upon another person or another entity and dictates how they are expected to conduct themselves towards me. I am under no obligation to do anything, but you must respect my rights.
5. This is also why the number of natural and human right’s continually expands, because it is always easy to place an obligations upon others, to demand things of them.
In response to objections:
— eugyppius (@eugyppius1) December 16, 2022
\u201cHuman rights\u201d do not have a basis in nature, or all societies would have them and they would predate the enlightenment.
Nor do they have a basis in Christianity. The Christian tradition was ca. 1500 years old before anyone talked of rights. https://t.co/dxyt0M5SJo
2. “Thou shall not kill” is very different from a “right to life.” One places an obligation upon me not to harm you. The other places an obligation on you not to harm me. There is incommensurable world of difference between those two formulations of morality.
3. “Natural rights” is an anti-morality masquerading as a moral system. In a true morality, the obligation is always placed upon me, the moral actor, to be responsible for my own actions.
4. “Natural rights” on the other hand, removes my own moral responsibility and places it upon another person or another entity and dictates how they are expected to conduct themselves towards me. I am under no obligation to do anything, but you must respect my rights.
5. This is also why the number of natural and human right’s continually expands, because it is always easy to place an obligations upon others, to demand things of them.
1. All left ideologies going back to classical liberalism itself are revolutionary and utopian at heart. The whole of the enlightenment IS the culture war writ large. Whether it is capitalism, Marxism, socialism, or fascism, they are part of the enlightenment drive for utopia.
2. This is at root the basic impulse of the enlightenment, it is even in the name itself: “the enlightenment.” It is the claim that they woke up after the “dark ages” (another enlightenment smear). They were going to overthrow hierarchy and superstition.
3. They would trust reason alone. Society would be remade along the lines of reason and science. We would free ourselves from dark ages shackles on learning, economics and politics. We would remake society, putting human dignity at the center of society.
4. There is no escaping this in our society. Even so-called “conservatives” today simply harken back to an earlier simpler liberalism. But they never stop to examine liberalism’s fundamental drive to build a society that realizes humanity’s full potential.
5. At its heart, liberalism is utopian. It has its own soteriology. It is trying to create a utopia of equality, freedom and prosperity. If now the current forms of liberalism want to devour the older, this is what revolutions do.
This superb article denounces a false left promoting wokery and dissolving all basic pillars of human civilisation, while not falling into the dangers of simplistic right-wing reaction. Increasingly the real left, including Marxists, are breaking with such liberal extremism. https://t.co/5RLvHMqixM
— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) December 5, 2022
2. This is at root the basic impulse of the enlightenment, it is even in the name itself: “the enlightenment.” It is the claim that they woke up after the “dark ages” (another enlightenment smear). They were going to overthrow hierarchy and superstition.
3. They would trust reason alone. Society would be remade along the lines of reason and science. We would free ourselves from dark ages shackles on learning, economics and politics. We would remake society, putting human dignity at the center of society.
4. There is no escaping this in our society. Even so-called “conservatives” today simply harken back to an earlier simpler liberalism. But they never stop to examine liberalism’s fundamental drive to build a society that realizes humanity’s full potential.
5. At its heart, liberalism is utopian. It has its own soteriology. It is trying to create a utopia of equality, freedom and prosperity. If now the current forms of liberalism want to devour the older, this is what revolutions do.
1. The truth is you can’t. And it is almost certainly happening. “Our” propaganda vs. “their” propaganda. One of the things that reading Ellul’s “Propaganda” will teach you is that the more immersed you are in mass media you are, the more easily manipulatable you are. https://t.co/KlwO32o7Xk
2. If you don’t want to be manipulated by propaganda and want to regain your own thoughts, stop paying attention to the news. The rise of propaganda comes with the invention of the printing press, but mostly with the newspaper and the idea of “the news.”
3. Being caught up in “the news” makes you susceptible to propaganda manipulation. Why is this? You would think that being well informed would make you less able to be manipulated, but that is not the case. It makes you more vulnerable.
4. One of the characteristics of “the news” —and this only intensifies with TV, internet and social media like Twitter—is that it is always changing, it is always “new.” If you follow the news, what happens is that over time your thoughts start to lose their grounding.
5. Your consciousness is simply a stream of of every shifting content and stories. You become hungry for the next story and the next new thing to absorb and react to. You begin to see this as a strength, you are “informed.”
How can we know that this isn't evidence of an alternative propaganda system asserting some power within a state of total propaganda?
— Iakobos (@_Iakobos_) December 16, 2022
2. If you don’t want to be manipulated by propaganda and want to regain your own thoughts, stop paying attention to the news. The rise of propaganda comes with the invention of the printing press, but mostly with the newspaper and the idea of “the news.”
3. Being caught up in “the news” makes you susceptible to propaganda manipulation. Why is this? You would think that being well informed would make you less able to be manipulated, but that is not the case. It makes you more vulnerable.
4. One of the characteristics of “the news” —and this only intensifies with TV, internet and social media like Twitter—is that it is always changing, it is always “new.” If you follow the news, what happens is that over time your thoughts start to lose their grounding.
5. Your consciousness is simply a stream of of every shifting content and stories. You become hungry for the next story and the next new thing to absorb and react to. You begin to see this as a strength, you are “informed.”