Reprising this chart on the Enlightenment of the long 1700s and it self-conscious grasp it its own significance.
Related: My “Enlightenment Vision” flowchart and other posts and lectures on the Enlightenment.
The chart is from Chapter One of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault.
Now if we could only devise a solution to the problem of how to get enough of the right people to prefer the items in the third column…