James Beattie identified scepticism and sophistry not as innocent errors, but as intentional operational subversions. He was not critiquing Hume, Hobbes and others merely as theorists, but as agents of metaphysical war; embedding systems of dialectical containment and will-to-power disguised as liberty and academic freedom. Beattie understood that once …
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