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The Enlightenment and Reaction
Caron o'brian: The enlightenment begins to know itself, in a sense, when it generates reaction. And i think an enlightenment and a counter enlightenment are embedded in the whole process from the very beginning. I think that am a good example of this would be a the abidonian philosopher, james beat he was professor of moral philosophy. He he reacted very strongly against what he saw as the moral scepticism and the dangerous atheism of hume's philosophy. So i think that certainly, on the london side things, the english be started to become aware of the enlightenment through a process of reaction and counter reaction. And the story would be the same in america. A