New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 169
What are the foundations of “the West” as we understand it today? Many of us land on a hyphenated term that finds itself under attack in the world today: our foundations are Judeo-Christian. But then, we also must admit the relevance of the seismic shifts in thought and political organization of the various movements we retroactively recognize as “the” Enlightenment (really: the various Enlightenments). That much is undeniable. The correct expression of these currents, which incorporated into a Christian ethic a great deal of “Enlightenment” thinking and also a revitalization of much Judaic thinking, arose on the American continent more or less uniquely. Thus, “the West” and the “Western Civilization” that we defend today is not just Judeo-Christian or “Enlightenment” but specifically Judeo-Christian-American. Join host James Lindsay for this deep episode of New Discourses Bullets in which he explores this important innovation and idea.
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The “enigmatic” term “pursuit of happiness” was derived from the ideas of Gottfried Leibniz through Emmerich de Vattel in his book the Law of Nations.
“Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity,” rather than merely the right to use one’s property as one willed.
https://archive.schillerinstitute.com/fid_97-01/971_vattel.html