
Dialectic of Enlightenment
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Is Enlightenment a Dualism?
Enlightenment stands in the same relation to things as the dictator to human beings, right? And there is exactly what you're saying about dualism, right? Like you have enlightenment on the one side and these poor little things on the other side that enlightenment reason is instrumentally dominating. That's like a... It is akin, I think, to the contemporary position of flat ontology, right?Like that Kantian transcendental Kantian subjectivity is imposing itself in this hierarchical way, but really everything is flat.
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