Aurelius@lemmy.world to Asklemmy · 9 months agoWho in history (either present or in the past) do you think has had the biggest positive impact on humanity?message-squaremessage-square254fedilinkarrow-up1131arrow-down14
arrow-up1127arrow-down1message-squareWho in history (either present or in the past) do you think has had the biggest positive impact on humanity?Aurelius@lemmy.world to Asklemmy · 9 months agomessage-square254fedilink
minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblinlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down9·9 months agoThe enlightenment is overrated. History is driven by contestst of groups not contests of ideas.
minus-squaregapbetweenus@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up5·9 months agoAnd people are often governed or motivated by ideas.
minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblinlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down8·9 months agoPeople are governed/motivated by self-interest.
minus-squareCarrolade@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·9 months agoThat statement sounds an awful lot like … an idea.
minus-squaregapbetweenus@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·9 months agoSo you don’t have ideas in your head about the world that affect how you interact with the world? Might be true for you, but I would say it’s not an universal experience. Also I don’t say it’s juts ideas but ideas are part of our psychology.
minus-squaremindbleach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·9 months agoAs a counterpoint, may I submit: your own fucking username?
minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblinlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoBe weird if they had made the first line of the Preface a counterpoint to the first line of Part 1
minus-squaremindbleach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoWhich group contested your attention to this idea two months later?
minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblinlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·9 months agoHow is historical materialism a counterpoint to historical materialism?
The enlightenment is overrated. History is driven by contestst of groups not contests of ideas.
And people are often governed or motivated by ideas.
People are governed/motivated by self-interest.
That statement sounds an awful lot like … an idea.
So you don’t have ideas in your head about the world that affect how you interact with the world? Might be true for you, but I would say it’s not an universal experience. Also I don’t say it’s juts ideas but ideas are part of our psychology.
As a counterpoint, may I submit: your own fucking username?
Be weird if they had made the first line of the Preface a counterpoint to the first line of Part 1
Which group contested your attention to this idea two months later?
Kaiser Chiefs
How is historical materialism a counterpoint to historical materialism?