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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3/ And it can’t make sense of itself, by answering questions like “what is truth,” “what is knowledge,” “what is being,” and so on. To make sense of her science—as such, let alone in the scheme of wider life—the scientist must go beyond science. As we’re doing here.
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Replying to @Plato4Now @disitinerant and
Are people doubting this?
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