Anti Enlightenment started almost at the same time as the Enlightenment. And Allan Bloom claims that this difficulty is what is at the root of the malice and sickness in the universities.
But he leaves out Kant and Hegel. Why? [I think that he must have thought they did not solve the problem-- even though clearly both meant to.]
I wrote all this before so why am I repeating this? Because of an added thought that Friedrich Jacobi was on the opposite side of the Enlightenment and it was his idea of faith [or immediate knowledge [not through reason] and not through the senses] that was a target of Hegel.
This is in spite of the fact that both Kant and were trying to get to God--the Absolute Spirit.
But they thought that subjective faith was not the way.
The other interesting thought is that the root of this difficulty in some way I think was even back in the Middle Ages when the conflict between Reason and Faith was a major issue. But in the Middle Ages it was thought that there must be a way to synthesize them.
But he leaves out Kant and Hegel. Why? [I think that he must have thought they did not solve the problem-- even though clearly both meant to.]
I wrote all this before so why am I repeating this? Because of an added thought that Friedrich Jacobi was on the opposite side of the Enlightenment and it was his idea of faith [or immediate knowledge [not through reason] and not through the senses] that was a target of Hegel.
This is in spite of the fact that both Kant and were trying to get to God--the Absolute Spirit.
But they thought that subjective faith was not the way.
The other interesting thought is that the root of this difficulty in some way I think was even back in the Middle Ages when the conflict between Reason and Faith was a major issue. But in the Middle Ages it was thought that there must be a way to synthesize them.
