Episode #143 ... Jürgen Habermas pt. 1 - The Public Sphere

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  So for a long, long time, the Enlightenment has been the whipping child,

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  paying for all the mistakes and all the transgressions of philosophers and leaders alike.

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  And this child has taken a lot of abuse over the years, it should be said.

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  First we had the counter-enlightenment, then we had the existentialists,

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  then we had the beginning of the 20th century, then we had the postmodernists.

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  But for all these thinkers,

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  and all the different ways they thought the Enlightenment had produced practically every problem we faced as a species,

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  there were just as many, if not more,

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  thinkers that came back at them with a very nuanced philosophical argument that's been used since the beginning of time.

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  And the argument was this, yeah, but still.

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  In other words, yeah,

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  turns out in retrospect we aren't using rationality to arrive at the intrinsic structure of the universe.

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  But still, who really wants to throw out the entirety of what the Enlightenment has produced in the meantime?

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  Do you really want to throw out all the technical understanding of the universe that science has produced?

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  Do you really want to throw out all the economic progress?

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  Do you want to just sit here, vacationing in France, deconstructing grand narratives for the rest of our lives?

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