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15045 | The big issue since the eighteenth century has been: what is Reason? Its effect, limits and dangers? |
Full Idea: I think the central issue of philosophy and critical thought since the eighteenth century has always been, still is, and will, I hope, remain the question: What is this Reason that we use? What are its historical effects? What are its limits and dangers? | |||
From: Michel Foucault (Space, Knowledge and Power (interview) [1982], p.358) | |||
A reaction: One can hardly deny the fairness of the question, but I hope that won't prevent us from trying to be rational. Maybe logicians do a better job of clarifying reason than the political and historical speculations of Foucault? |