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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Exactly! There's a premise. And it's not derived from scientific facts themselves. It's a matter of values.
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But these come from our brains, right? You're not calling the fact that we have moral brains something which can't explain why we have moral values?
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Yes, they come from our brains. Again, nothing metaphysical, no ghost in the machine, no soul, no nothing of that.
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