QUIGGIN IS AT IT AGAIN. Some small percent of any thinker’s ideas survive the te

http://johnquiggin.com/2015/06/15/john-locke-an-enemy-of-freedom/LEFTIST QUIGGIN IS AT IT AGAIN.

Some small percent of any thinker’s ideas survive the test of time. We acknowledge these thinkers for their surviving ideas – the duration of an idea as a capital asset. Those ideas that do not survive the test of time are irrelevant.

The only reason to argue that an individual is or is not morally something or other, is if one is attributing authority to the individual, rather than to the asset value of his surviving ideas.

In other words, John’s post is an authoritarian and unscientific argument against an authoritarian and unscientific hypothesis.

Aristotle was wrong about almost everything. But that does not diminish that of the thinkers in the age of transformation, that he was not more ‘right’ and therefore more influential than all other thinkers combined.

He gave us a way of thinking. Locke gave us a way of thinking.

(BTW: The Catholics were just as damaging to the Rule of Law as Locke and his contemporaries supposed. They were certainly catastrophically damaging to the American constitution and American rule of law. And that’s before we get to Socialism and Judaism. Australia, like Canada, is one of the most privileged nations on earth, and Australians are notorious for confusing and conflating virtue with luxury and signaling.)