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Many people today think of the 18th-century Enlightenment as an exciting season of reason... The interpretation is unfortunately too simple.
A system of reasons that support reasons to support what seems to be knowledge eventually breaks down under such continued questioning, either through circular reasoning or an infinite regress. The foundations of the reasoned support of knowledge eventually turn from concrete into sand.
New research based on brain scans shows that people who care about justice are swayed more by reason than by emotion.
