I haven' responded to this list in years, it got to hostile. And I haven't followed the recent posts, but thought I might just dive in here and as the obvious epistemological question-how do you know? How do you know anything at all? Once you answer that question then you can as whether or not there was such a thin as the enlightenment, and other questions. First, how do you know.
The fact that there was once believed to be an enlightenment, and the fact that it is questioned today, is because we have changed our epistemology, as well as our metaphysics. But the very fact that we now question the existence of the enlightenment, or of any age, or absolute knowledge of any fact, is a direct result from the epistemology that was ushered in by the enlightenment. Jon Jan 6, 7:07 am, chazwin <[email protected]> wrote: > It's all very interesting but was there any such thing as a first > enlightenment? > > On Dec 30 2009, 6:21 pm, Georges Metanomski <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > ========== > > Reminder: > > > The present thread is destined to discuss the rationality of the >> Second Enlightenment as well as to inquire into the sources of > > the irrational manipulation of masses and to look for remediation. > > Its basic structure is: > > > X1. Scientific Revolution > > X2. Ontology > > X3. Ideology > > X4. Social awareness > > X5. Establishment > > > with X=F/S respectively for the first/second enlightenment. > > We start by the first enlightenment as guidance to the formulation > > of the second and warning of errors to be avoided. > > ============ = > > Originally the thread was meant as a chain of posts, but proved much > > too voluminous and I upload it progressively to my site. > > The so far uploaded sections are: > > F1.Scientific Revolution and F2.Ontology of the first enlightenment > > inhttp://findgeorges.com/ROOT/WRITINGS/ESSAYS/second_enlightenment_F1_F... > > F3.Ideology of the first enlightenment > > inhttp://findgeorges.com/ROOT/WRITINGS/ESSAYS/second_enlightenment_F3.html > > F4.Social awareness and F5.Establishment of the first enlightenment > > inhttp://findgeorges.com/ROOT/WRITINGS/ESSAYS/second_enlightenment_F4_F... > > S1.Scientific Revolution and S2.Ontology of the second enlightenment > > inhttp://findgeorges.com/ROOT/WRITINGS/ESSAYS/second_enlightenment_S1_S... > > > Georges.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
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