>pre 20th century
>all philosophers are theists or deists
>20th century
>most philosophers are atheists
Why?
Pre 20th century
Jaxson Anderson
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Dylan Green
A lot of them just threw out the name and kept the substance - even though chaging the name is, sometimes, changing the thing itself.
Jackson Diaz
before Darwin it was nearly inconceivable that there was not an intelligent creative force behind the universe's complexity
Brody Mitchell
Where do you get your statistics?
en.wikipedia.org
Jonathan Scott
>pre 20th century
>all philosophers are theists or desists
If you take most of their crafted little bios seriously and completely ignore their philosophies or personal lives.
Logan Taylor
are feminists seriously still using advice dog spinoffs? Holy shit they are behind in meme technology
Juan Ward
Kek
Logan Lopez
Because European philosophy since Descartes consists of people really wanting to believe in God, but further and further realising how irrational, empty and artificial that belief is. By the end of XIX century they accepter the obvious, hence "the God is dead."
Anthony Hill
>pre 20th century
>nearly all people claim to be theists or deists
>20th century
>most westerners are atheists
extremely surprising
Gabriel Richardson
>most westerners are atheists
u wot now
Brayden Lewis
>before Darwin
Hume*
Hume argued the case against a kind of personal creator God, Darwin just found supporting examples in a sense.
John Gomez
Zeitgeist and social norms.
Similarly, before the 1960s intellectuals didn't mind expressing racist views, but nowadays that's career suicide.
Luis Turner
>being wrong is career suicide
This has always been the case.
Over time we simply add to the list of discredited theories.
Parker Perry
>he doesn't realize le progressivism itself is a discredited theory
Landon Jackson
It's not a theory.
Jayden Wood
That's what they all say, kid.
Isaac Jackson
That's not feminist
Landon Baker
memegenerator is patrician
Camden Perry
Most of the Greek philosophers didn't believe in their pagan gods.
Justin Sanders
>Who was Hume
>Who was Diderot
>Who was Bentham
>Who is the Marquis de Sade
>Who was Spinzoa
>Who is Stirner
>Who is Comte
>Who is Mill
>Who is Melos
>Who is Empedocles
>Who is Schopenhauer
Benjamin Flores
>Why?
WW1.
Austin Bell
> it's a philosopher doesn't believe that hundreds of thousands of years of independent evolution doesn't have biological and cultural consequences episode
David Moore
Most philosophers pre20th century were also opposed to organized religion. They believed in a higher power for lack of any alternatives, but they certainly didn't believe in the religious practice of their time or any of the traditions we've held onto since.
Evan Wilson
Yeah it is? What else would you call something that ridicules rape culture apologists?
Anthony Young
Most tenured philosophy professors are borderline-depressed and massively unhappy, things religious people aren't.