"certain philosophical schools on both the left and the right have for centuries now attacked the very idea of authority." I understand this to mean the Protestant Reformation challenged the authority of the Catholic Church in the 17th century and then the Enlightenment challenged the authority of religion in the 18th. Which is left and …
"certain philosophical schools on both the left and the right have for centuries now attacked the very idea of authority." I understand this to mean the Protestant Reformation challenged the authority of the Catholic Church in the 17th century and then the Enlightenment challenged the authority of religion in the 18th. Which is left and which is right? Those terms had no currency until the French Revolution at the end of the 18th.
"certain philosophical schools on both the left and the right have for centuries now attacked the very idea of authority." I understand this to mean the Protestant Reformation challenged the authority of the Catholic Church in the 17th century and then the Enlightenment challenged the authority of religion in the 18th. Which is left and which is right? Those terms had no currency until the French Revolution at the end of the 18th.