The Dark Side of the Enlightenment by Yoram Hazony

The Dark Side of the Enlightenment by Yoram Hazony

This view of “reason”—and of its power, freed from the shackles of history, tradition and experience—is what Kant called “Enlightenment.” It is completely wrong. Human reason is incapable of reaching universally valid, unassailably correct answers to the problems of science, morality and politics by applying the methods of mathematics.

Although I believe what we call The Enlightenment has many great features, it definitely deserves a clear-headed rethinking.