Enlightenment (European)

is a movement grounded in various strivings towards totality and certainty which led in turn to an increasing instrumentalization of reason.

against the notion of modernity as progress. 'while trying to abolish superstition and myths by 'foundationalist' philosophy, it ignored its own 'mythical' basis. Its strivings towards totality and certainty led to an increasing instrumentalization of reason. In their view, the enlightenment itself should be enlightened and not posed as a 'myth-free' view of the world.' (wiki)

is a movement too heavily relying on rationalism. The laudable quest for facts, nietzsche argued, was buried under by logic.

In other words, the laudable quest for 'scientific' facts could be 'tyrannized over by logic' (HH, I: 'Of First and Last Things,' 6),

is a practice: As a practice it has no beginning... as enlightenment, it has no end.

Since it is the practice of enlightenment, that practice has no beginning and since it is enlightenment within the practice, that realization has no end. Dogen

is a revolution in words, with writing having achieved a new and awesome power over the world of objects as it shaped the individuals who established a relationship with that world of objects as it shaped the individuals who established a relationship with that world through reading.

Thus Foucault enables us to see the European Enlightenment as a revolution in words, which gave writing a new and awesome power over the world of objects as it shaped the individuals who established a relationship with that world of objects as it shaped the individuals who established a relationship with that world through reading.

is achieved not by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. Carl Jung

is aimed at liberating humanity from the shackles of tradition, autocracy and superstition towards a bright future of universal enlightenment.

Les philosaphes of the eighteenth century believed themselves to be the bearers of a sacred project, to liberate humanity from the shackles of tradition, autocracy and superstition towards a bright future of universal enlightenment.

is also a 'seeking to give new impetus, as far as possible, to the undefined work of freedom.

a possible transgression of these limitations,'(45) and is also a 'seeking to give new impetus, as far as possible, to the undefined work of freedom'(46).

is also the beginning of modern depravity.

The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. Umberto Eco

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