Modernity tended to have an optimistic view of humanity: It emphasized universal and reliable human reason, human goodness, and human perfectibility. It also emphasized universality in its anthropology — according to modernity, humans have a common mental and moral make-up. In such a context, questions of righteousness were relatively easy – if humans weren’t already […]
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