I can only agree , since I’ve been saying for a long time that the current rationalist movement is only the latest iteration of many.
(Also the reference to The Science of Life reminded of my grandfather on my father’s side , who was a great believer in self education and owned a number of Welles’s non fiction works including that one).
It’s a warning if the history consists of various groups having extreme confidence about solving all the problems in ways that subsequent groups don’t accept.
I can only agree , since I’ve been saying for a long time that the current rationalist movement is only the latest iteration of many.
(Also the reference to The Science of Life reminded of my grandfather on my father’s side , who was a great believer in self education and owned a number of Welles’s non fiction works including that one).
I’d agree with that, except for the word “only”. It is no criticism of the present, to observe that it has a history.
It’s a warning if the history consists of various groups having extreme confidence about solving all the problems in ways that subsequent groups don’t accept.