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The defenders of liberal [[enlightenment]] — surely a noble cause in [[our stupid age]] — are given to blame the ...uite so free of truthiness as they seem. And things we take as articles of enlightenment faith are not quite as truthy as they seem. So let us draw and have a close

...primarily for ''your'' own good, but ''ours''. We, your audience, crave ''enlightenment''; failing that, ''entertainment''; failing ''that'', mere ''distraction'' ...our audience wants to be entertained, first, and enlightened, second — but enlightenment, not entertainment, is the optional extra.

...law was always there — it just took a craftsperson of sufficient skill and enlightenment to reveal it in all its artistic beauty.

...ant philosophers and scientists, from the [[Descartes]] at the dawn of the Enlightenment to [[Hume]] at the end of it right down to post-war 20th Century writers li

...law was always there — it just took a craftsperson of sufficient skill and enlightenment to reveal it in all its artistic beauty.

..., challenging and batty books written by leading scientists, which provide enlightenment and unexpected entertainment. This isn’t one of them.

...rementally, solved. Seen this way, (well-directed) goals are a tool in the enlightenment kit for delivering that final {{strike|entropic|blissful}} state. This is,

...its premise is wrong: it rejects the causal principle on which the western enlightenment is founded. For the causal principle leads us to some kind of determinism,

But to raise these types of objection is to seek the wrong kind of enlightenment. It is to think in a Western way, and that won’t do. It’s the Theory th

...of of objective truths, which happened to be different to the conventional enlightenment ones.

370 – a modern illusion: that "we" are the end product. Before the enlightenment we were part of the present collective and future progeny. <br>

...al disposition, or otherwise providing analogous psychological support and enlightenment, or other bodily pleasure, chaste or unchaste.''

Enlightenment orthodoxy has fallen from grace. John Milton Friedman has been cast from pa

...wringing, such as Marxism, critical theory, which grew directly out of the enlightenment tradition and arguably could not have emerged in any other culture (b) pain