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Zuckerman on Obama
I cannot make the two phases clear in a paragraph, although most thoughtful men understand the point intuitively. Here is a simple putting of the matter by Richard Kennington, as found in all three editions of the Strauss & Cropsey Reader: “Enlightenment is an unprecedented type of political action undertaken by the founders of modern philosophy and continued by most of their followers….Enlightenment implies ‘open societies’ linked with each other….It is necessarily antithetical to any societies or elements in a society, that seek the autonomous cultivation and preservation of their own morality and way of life. Thus Enlightenment is by intention a universal politics, potentially of global magnitude, and the first of philosophic origin.”
R. J. Loewenberg Printer-Friendly
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