Our thinking is shaped by our environment in profound ways that we often aren’t even aware of. Those who refuse to accept that they are as much limited by these forces as anyone else have delusions of intellectual grandeur.
The article is apparently magnanimous in excusing past philosophers for their mistakes, but I feel it could have focused more on how we too are shaped by our current environment - perhaps we're not as infallible and enlightened as the rest of the article would suggest.
> Our thinking is shaped by our environment in profound ways that we often aren’t even aware of. Those who refuse to accept that they are as much limited by these forces as anyone else have delusions of intellectual grandeur.
The article is apparently magnanimous in excusing past philosophers for their mistakes, but I feel it could have focused more on how we too are shaped by our current environment - perhaps we're not as infallible and enlightened as the rest of the article would suggest.
As an aside, I recently [posted a link](https://phuks.co/s/Conservation/51330) to a 1968 paper by Garrett Hardin that I thought was a good read. It was interesting to check out the ["Controversy" section of his wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_Hardin#Racist_sentiments_and_association_with_white_nationalism).
The article is apparently magnanimous in excusing past philosophers for their mistakes, but I feel it could have focused more on how we too are shaped by our current environment - perhaps we're not as infallible and enlightened as the rest of the article would suggest.
As an aside, I recently posted a link to a 1968 paper by Garrett Hardin that I thought was a good read. It was interesting to check out the "Controversy" section of his wikipedia page.