society really hasnt grappled with darwin yet imo
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was darwin the closing of the enlightenment?
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I think this is an illusion. The increasing acceptance of Darwin's theory among the regular person in the developed world does mark something of a break, and that took decades after Darwin proposed it and continues today. 1/2
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But in terms of intelectually leaving God behind as a society, many (if not most) later Enlightment theorists had embraced Deism for quite a while already. The radical claims of the Enlightment in a sense required for there to not be an active God that could say otherwise. 2/2
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im not talking about belief in god but rather the notion of man as basically rational; and to an extent, humanism
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