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Thursday, August 5, 2021
Enlightenment, now or never
Our summer course meets for the last time tonight [Aug.3]. I’ve tried to convey an urgency about this historical moment. The demand for reason and rationality in our affairs, as a last-ditch existential lifeboat, may be not quite so dire as “now or never” implies. But it might be. That’s my last word on this topic, for now: we live on the edge of possibility, our destiny hangs in the balance. We dare not err on the side of less reason and more irrationality. Sapere aude. Please! (continues)
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