Most (dare I say all?) of the dead white euro “great men,” were catastrophically wrong at least some of the time, and that’s fine to acknowledge actually
Including the brilliant ones whose critiques & analyses are also sometimes vitally important. It’s fine! That’s why later developments in theory & science etc. happened. There has never been and never will be a Final Word
Also the ones who aren’t dead yet
Some are considerably more wrong than others though.
Also like 80% of them at minimum were/are huge creeps which is not in fact irrelevant to their analytic frameworks or how their theories should be engaged with, just food fro thought
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