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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Replying to @Plato4Now @disitinerant and
One of the good things about the Enlightenment was the process that began where we test things and recognise the bad as bad and weed it out. We'll never get things perfect but this is the only way to get better.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @disitinerant and
2/ Science can weed out the “bad” if by that we mean false theories about nature, or technologies that will fail to achieve our desires. But it cannot determine which desires are bad, nor actions either, unless those be the ones that fail to achieve our other desires.
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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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