Was the Enlightenment a massive mistake? Or was it merely just growing pains for the current intellectual climate we're in at this moment of time? I've seen many on the left criticise the movement so I wanted to get your guys' thoughts on this.

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Anonymous 2022-01-10 (Mon) 11:42:32 No.685038

Was the Enlightenment a massive mistake? Or was it merely just growing pains for the current intellectual climate we're in at this moment of time? I've seen many on the left criticise the movement so I wanted to get your guys' thoughts on this.

Anonymous 2022-01-10 (Mon) 11:45:36 No.685040

>Or was it merely just growing pains for the current intellectual climate we're in at this moment of time?
what do you mean
it was mostly irrelevant and co-opted by a lot of monarchies to present themselves as "progressive" (more culturally "european")

Anonymous 2022-01-10 (Mon) 11:48:31 No.685043

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>All the power of nature was reduced to mere indiscriminate resistance to the abstract power of the subject. The particular mythology which the Western Enlightenment, even in the form of Calvinism, had to get rid of was the Catholic doctrine of the ordo and the popular pagan religion which still flourished under it. The goal of bourgeois philosophy was the liberate men from all this. But the liberation went further than its humane progenitors had conceived. The unleashed market economy was both the actual form of reason and the power which destroyed reason. The Romantic reactionaries only expressed what the bourgeois themselves experienced: that in their world freedom tended toward organized anarchy. The Catholic counterrevolution proved itself right as against the Enlightenment, just as the Enlightenment had shown itself to be right in regard to Catholicism.

Anonymous 2022-01-10 (Mon) 11:48:48 No.685044

>>685040
What I mean by this is if the ideas presented during this time were instrumental in our way of thinking today, both the good and the bad.

Anonymous 2022-01-10 (Mon) 11:50:29 No.685045

>>685043
which book

Anonymous 2022-01-10 (Mon) 11:52:29 No.685047

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Dialectic of Enlightenment

Anonymous 2022-01-10 (Mon) 11:53:06 No.685048

>>685045
>>685047

Anonymous 2022-01-10 (Mon) 12:52:53 No.685107

>>685043
Based Adornoposter

Anonymous 2022-01-10 (Mon) 23:12:19 No.685797

>>685043
Damn, the Frankfurt School looks like this?!

Anonymous 2022-01-11 (Tue) 08:23:36 No.686509

Marx was an Enlightenment thinker.

Anonymous 2022-01-11 (Tue) 08:27:01 No.686512

>>686154
>>686509
man shut up

Anonymous 2022-01-11 (Tue) 08:48:22 No.686519

>>685038
It's legacy is a social cancer that falsely takes credit for rationality and science

Anonymous 2022-01-12 (Wed) 02:22:01 No.687682

>>686509
Positivism's influence on Marx and Engels is undeniable. The more i read them, the more i notice it.

Anonymous 2022-01-12 (Wed) 03:41:39 No.687767

>>685038
it was a progress. ofc it was bourgeois in nature, but that doesnt mean its "bad" or a "mistake"

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