And you’d say pre-modern worlds were aware of being dogmatic?
"The special mark of the modern world is not that it is skeptical, but that it is dogmatic without knowing it." — G.K. Chesterton
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I think the point is more that they never convinced themselves they had risen above their own silly dogmas while we tend to think precisely that even as it's clearly untrue. Thinking we've conquered our own irrationality has serious consequences when we haven't.
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Yes. This is exactly what it is.
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That applies to the pre modern and probably post modern
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