[MD] Biological Quality & Social Conservatism

[Heather Perella]

     [Platt]
> It was accepted up to a couple of hundred years ago,
> not many years ago in human history. 

    that's what i'm saying, too.

 
> >      [Platt]
> >From Wikipedia:
> 
> "The Age of Enlightenment (French: Siècle des
> Lumières; German: Aufklärung) was an
> eighteenth century movement in European and American
> philosophy, or the longer period
> including the Age of Reason. The term can more
> narrowly refer to the intellectual
> movement of The Enlightenment, which advocated
> Reason as the primary basis of
> authority. Developing in France, Britain and
> Germany, its sphere of influence also
> included Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland,
> Russia, Scandinavia, Spain and, in
> fact, the whole of Europe. Many of the United
> States' Founding Fathers were also
> heavily influenced by Enlightenment-era ideas,
> particularly in the religious sphere
> (Deism) and, in parallel with classical liberalism,
> in the political sphere (which
> had a major influence on its Bill of Rights, in
> parallel with the Declaration of the
> Rights of Man and the Citizen)."

     Thanks.  So, this does point out that Reason was
influencing politics, reasoning was not strong enough
to convince many about slavery for some time after the
Bill of Rights, etc...  Civil War came and went, but
without these unwarlike declarations of reason that
spoke out against slavery.  That's my original point. 
People talk.  This discussion period was called the
Enlightenment Age: Age of Reason.  As to war having to
be the turning point?  Yes... that's still a question.
 
 
> [SA previously]
> > I asked,
> > more directly, "Why did slavery persist in the
> > founding years of the U.S.?"

     [Platt] 
> Takes time to change minds about a social pattern
> that had a long history. 

     Yes, my point on how the many, the majority
change.

 
evening,
SA


       
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