> Chris Doss
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> Yeah, but Jefferson would never have existed in the first place
> without the Enlightenment/Reformation, which were in turn (roughly)
> reactions to the middle ages (sort of), of which Aquinas is generally
> considered the emblematic thinker. But I suppose with this logic we
> would have to go back to the breakup of Pangaia...
>
> ^^^^
> CB: I thought the Enlightenment/Reformation was a reflection in
> superstructure of the revolution in base/infrastructure, i.e. the
> bourgeois revolution overthrowing the feudal mode of production in
> Europe.
>
I'm afraid I don't see the contradiction.