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The world after reality | Hilary Lawson

Philosophy For Our Times

CHAPTER

We Can Hold the World Differently

The tools of the Enlightenment were observation and reason. They've also run into trouble, haven't they? Lots of things that we've developed with the Enlightenment which have generated their own problems. We just have to give up thinking that we might arrive at the truth. Reality is a theological notion. It's a superstition. And it's time to give up on our superstition in favor of an alternative perspective.

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