One of the more curious and for me difficult issues in history is the transition
from the Age of Reason to the Age of Enlightenment, which in my mind refers to
the transition from the time of
René Descartes and Isaac Newton + Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
What happened?
The problem I have is did we abandon reason for something which
we thought better that reason? And what was that we achieved at that
point convinced us that it was in some way superior to " Reason " /// ???? ////
To put it another way, in that transition did we gain some superior insight or
did we simply take on an unacceptable degree of hubris? ( for those
unacquainted with the theory of degrees of hubris ( there are 360 ) )..
I spent a bit of time considering this issue, and for me the jury is not
only out but it doesn't look like the jury is coming back any time soon.
So to put it simply,,, enlightenment to me is about giving up prejudice
and superstition.....
Did that really happen between the lives Descartes and Newton? And more
important ,,,, has that happened yet?
What happened?
The problem I have is did we abandon reason for something which
we thought better that reason? And what was that we achieved at that
point convinced us that it was in some way superior to " Reason " /// ???? ////
To put it another way, in that transition did we gain some superior insight or
did we simply take on an unacceptable degree of hubris? ( for those
unacquainted with the theory of degrees of hubris ( there are 360 ) )..
I spent a bit of time considering this issue, and for me the jury is not
only out but it doesn't look like the jury is coming back any time soon.
So to put it simply,,, enlightenment to me is about giving up prejudice
and superstition.....
Did that really happen between the lives Descartes and Newton? And more
important ,,,, has that happened yet?
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