The Counter Enlightenment

The thinkers of the counter enlightenment represent the initial opposition to all these new ways of looking at the world in human life. They wanted to arrive at a scientistic approach to things like a universal good or a versal, best way that society should be structured. During thi time period, people started thinking of themselves much more in terms of being an individual, rather than as part of the community. So it's no wonder why isaiah berlin, living 200 years in the future, would see the counter enlightenment as a potential source of real wisdom.