Being fully rational requires taking stock of the whole. To focus exclusively on good (or bad) is to make a partial judgment. To deny the Enlightenment's responsibility for anything bad after, say, 1750 while giving it credit for everything good thereafter is a double standard.
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Sorry, I read back through the thread a bit but didn't pick up that this was purely about the scientific method rather than the broader intellectual and moral developments of the period.
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