RE: MD Failure of the Enlightenment

From: enoonan (enoonan@kent.edu)
Date: Sun May 26 2002 - 00:52:23 BST


DMB:>And I should add that I regret using the words "chuckle" and "snort". I
was
>just trying to duplicate my immediate response to Erins remarks and I was
>trying to deliver the correction in a light-hearted way, but the effect has
>been the opposite.

ERIN: Trust me, I did not take it with a heavy- hearted way. Feel free to use
any type of humor when making a point but I was just trying to be let in on
the joke.
I just don't see what is so funny. I wrote a post about enlightenment when
you were talking the postmodern response to Enlightenment---how absurd of me.
The age of Enlightenment were optimistic by using the universal values of
science, reason, and logic they could get rid of all myths that kept humanity
from progressing.
Enlightenment held a myth about a particular path toward enlightment.
Don't you think an age that was called "Enlightenment" may have been called
that due to a particular conception of enlightenment-----or did they just pull
the name out of their ass.

>DMB says:
>I'm just saying that enlightenment of the spiritual sort was not the topic
>of my post. The failure that it refered to was of a historical nature, not a
>mystical one. I didn't notice your use of capitalization, and that issue
>never crossed my mind. But I thought the misunderstanding was kinda funny.
>See?
>
>
>DMB originally SAID:
>In the
>intellectual level's attempt to assert itself over social level values it
>has ignored and destroyed them. This is the failure of the enlightenment.
>This is what the MOQ attempts to fix.
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