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===The enlightenment cancelling the enlightenment===

...Descartes.jpg|450px|center]]}}What the {{t|Latin}}s (and [[René Descartes|Enlightenment French]], come to think of it) called what we think of as a [[derivative]]:

...itarianism, and while close, it is not the same thing) is the legacy of an enlightenment quest to solve [[complex]] social and economic problems by “sciencing the

}}For all its delusions of fairness, enlightenment, openness to challenge and new ideas, [[employee survey]]s and so on, do no

...diverting but, well, literally, ''diverting''. Diversion from the path to enlightenment is at best [[Waste|wasteful]] and at worst destructive. Now: how one ''knows'' one is on the path to enlightenment is just the question, of course, to which epistemic priority gives an answe

...whopping great narrative, try this: the gently advancing enquiries of the Enlightenment slowly suffocated God. Copernicus started it, in the 15th century, displaci ...s on Charles Darwin’s specimen table. The New Big Idea was, of course, the enlightenment scientific tradition itself. Rationalism. Now, here is an interesting thing

...in a closed logical system. The inherent [[paradox]] at the heart of the [[enlightenment]]. The set of all sets whose members do not include themselves both does, a

...n three or four languages, and grew so enraged by loathesome syntax of mid-enlightenment Bourgogne that he set out to change it. His first approach was an attempt t

A grand [[Metaphysics|metaphysical]] fiction on which much of post-enlightenment western civilisation — or the utter ruination of the aforesaid, depending

...the hilarious pantomime of the [[Slavenburg]] filings) are not required. ''Enlightenment Now'', friends.

''Why'' is it the standard means of writing in science? The enlightenment programme was to describe the universe as it is, unmediated by the peering

...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.

...ships and, of course HAL’s beady eye and brain. White denotes the tools of enlightenment: the bones, the spaceships, and HAL’s modules of higher conscience which Green is the state of enlightenment; the point at which a being is vulnerable neither to tools, intelligence or

...se philanthropists who will stop at nothing to ensure progressive, liberal enlightenment pervades their commercial activities.

...took me until my twenties: sometime, I think, in the 1990s. In this case, enlightenment came by way of ''epiphany'' during a documentary about then recently deceas

...reinforced to them such that they emerge flush with certainty in their own enlightenment. It is all they have ever known common success at this limited, narrow game

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

...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

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