On 2/12/06, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmm. You might want to read some of John Gray's books. He torches the > comfortable idea that we are on an irresistible path towards liberal > democracy. Unfortunately.
It's not comfortable or irresistable but it's not non-existent either. > For example: "The chief tenet of the Enlightenment is that the growth of > knowledge is the key to human emancipation. No true believer in the > Enlightenment would ever question that article of faith. Yet faith in > progress through the growth of knowledge is itself irrational." > The genuine article for me is the _knowledge_ that knowledge is the key to human emancipation. Faith is irrelevent. Cheers, Gautam
