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I’ve sometimes mentioned the Enlightenment as a time when science flowered. I still think this praise is deserved, but there was also a dark side to the Enlightenment. In fact, many of our biggest problems took shape during its last half. Along the way, these problems became substantial causes of episodes like the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution, Marxism, Leninism, postmodernism, and a host of lesser plagues. This damage must be left behind if we are to move forward.
And so we’ll look at what went wrong during the Enlightenment, address the errors, and look at emerging from beneath its debris. The good news is that rooting out the damage requires only a change of ideas. That’s almost impossible to accomplish quickly, but over time – once we accept that the process is necessarily a long one – ideas can be very effectively changed.