sj_zero on Nostr: My original post didn't single out any individual epistemological system, and in fact ...

My original post didn't single out any individual epistemological system, and in fact made a point to look at things through the lenses of many different eras. This fits with the superpositional framework I use for analysis which holds multiple truths in superposition including truths from pre-knowledge, pre-epistemology, pre-modernity, modernity, and postmodernity.

Since the overall theme of my analysis was showing that people need to think for themselves, the mention of strength was included because the common conceptualization of the premodern age was of ideological rigidity and just following the orders of the emperor or the noble or the bishop, but the reality was more nuanced, that ideologies could be rigid, but they weren't totalizing in the same way that modern ideologies were, and so you were expected to listen to the king or the pastor, but you also had expectations to act personally in pursuit of the virtues of the era which meant different forms of strength, and that meant thinking for yourself.