The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.
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The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.
I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.
The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water.
Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.
We're in an age of enlightenment, and we have a choice as a society which path to take.
If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.
Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.
I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws.
The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
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