eudaemonia

Enlightenment?

One of the boilerplate criticisms from the academic left against it foes, is that this “other” stands against the Enlightenment. This sobriquet “enlightenment” is normally juxtaposed to the “the dark age” as if the former is a recrudescence of human faculties and sensibilities. The currency of the left’s adage then imputes clouded or deluded thinking upon its foes. But like the “dark ages” the term “enlightenment” is a serious misnomer: The product of political public relations or branding with little evidence to support its reputed import.

This author rejects the general themes of the enlightenment as promoting irrationality rather than perspicacity. The whole of nature is transformed into the product of Mans ratiocinative processes…the psychologization of causation. We are only now recovering from this two century old delusion.

posted by spelunker @ 6:20 AM