Why Reason Turned Into A Dead End For Enlightenment Philosophy by Nathanael Blake

Why Reason Turned Into A Dead End For Enlightenment Philosophy by Nathanael Blake

It is pointless to proclaim the supremacy of Enlightenment reason, because there is no such thing. There is only a bevy of competing philosophical systems, each claiming to be the one true “Reason.” Without a universal standard of public rationality, every criticism that Tracinski directs at “faith” applies just as readily to “reason.” Which philosopher got it right? Plato? Aquinas? Spinoza? Kant? Hegel? As MacIntyre asks: Which rationality?

I love this debate. The Enlightenment brought rationality so we no longer needed Revelation. But rationality itself needs a type of "first mover" to inform us as to what is actually rational. That back-and-forth IS the Enlightenment.