Enlightenment-era cruelty shifts from rulers onto the ruled.

Evidence

The liberation of citizens from the injustice of the feudalistic and absolutist past served to unleash modern machinery through liberalism, just as the emancipation of women led to their development into a military force. The spirit and all that is good in its origins and existence are inextricably caught up in this network of horror. The serum which a doctor gives a sick child is obtained by attacking defenseless animals. The endearing words of lovers and the holiest symbols of Christianity contain traces of the pleasure felt in devouring the flesh of a kid, just as this pleasure itself reflects an ambiguous respect for the totem animal. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 200 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The consequence of this [Enlightenment] critique is not the disappearance of the monster. During the Enlightenment, teratological galleries will remain an important category of the imagination. However, the monsters of modernity do not possess the same radical alterity of their classical and medieval predecessors but are rather the excrescence of an almost domestic world, mere deviations from the figures of normality. The sciences of physiognomy and criminology begin to describe, instead of sinners against God and nature, a constellation of degenerates, such as rapists. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 379 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Enlightenment-era monsters lost radical alterity and became domestic deviants — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 379; Bourgeois republics punish the soul while monarchies punished the body.; Enlightenment reason replicated the tyranny it rebelled against, now over nature — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 182 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Enlightened progress remains entangled with domination and cruelty #corroborates (0.90) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 200
• Enlightenment-era monsters lost radical alterity and became domestic deviants #expands (0.85) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 379
• Bourgeois republics punish the soul while monarchies punished the body. #expands (0.85)
• The reformed penalty shifted its target from the body to subtler suffering #corroborates (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 43
• Enlightenment reason replicated the tyranny it rebelled against, now over nature #expands (0.80) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 182
• Enlightenment rationalism generated new monsters instead of eradicating them #expands (0.80) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 352
• Morality shifting redefines the frame so atrocities no longer seem immoral #expands (0.75)
• The ruled adore the ideology that enslaves them more ardently than the rulers do #expands (0.75) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 104
• The concept of torture has expanded from physical pain to include cruelty. #corroborates (0.75) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 563