This is also true. The point isn't the deny the entire validity of the Enlightenment (an impossible & foolish task) but to urge that it be seen as having a complex, conflicted, evolving legacy.https://twitter.com/OldDreyfusard/status/1003095762845093893 …
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That’s my view, with some caveats. But more importantly, it’s close to Foucault’s view, too. (Interestingly, he gives Kant great credit for inaugurating this Aufklaerung ueber Aufklaerung.)
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With respect, I think it's a bit of a red herring. Is anyone making plaster saints out of Kant and Locke? (FWIW, I agree Pinker's account of the Enlightenment is too simplistic.)
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