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Today's episodes on the work of a Yurgen Habermas.

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So for a long, long time, the enlightenment has been the whipping child paying for all the mistakes and all the

transgressions of philosophers and leaders alike.

And this child has taken a lot of abuse over the years, it should be said.

First, we had the counter enlightenment. Then we had the existentialists.

Then we had the beginning of the 20th century. Then we had the postmodernists.

But for all these thinkers and all the different ways they thought the enlightenment

and produced practically every problem we faced as a species, there were just as many,

if not more thinkers that came back at them with a very nuanced philosophical argument that's been

used since the beginning of time. And the argument was this.

Yeah, but still, in other words, yeah, turns out in retrospect, we aren't using rationality to arrive at the intrinsic

structure of the universe. But still, who really wants to throw out the entirety of what the

enlightenment is produced in the meantime? Do you really want to throw out all the technical

understanding of the universe that science has produced? Do you really want to throw out all the

economic progress? Do you want to just sit here, vacationing in France, deconstructing grand

narratives for the rest of our lives? The thinker we're going to be talking about today,

Yergen Habermas said no. Habermas thought sure the enlightenment had some problems. And yes,

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