post enlightenment turn

[CHRISTIAN kumpe]

Re: post enlightenment turn

My wife and I talked about the pope's speech in the German parliament last year. If we got him right, pope claimed that enlightenment itself laid the foundation to all the totalitarian terrors, because it took away  these god given limitations, which lend conventional tyrants their excuses to run the show, and gave way for freewheeling free thinkers to pursue their limitless goals.
So if we accept pope's approach, no turn was ever necessary to make us suffer, enlightenment itself was the wrong turn...

Best,
Christian.