People generally seek enlightenment as an escape from the pain of life. Some continue to pursue it, while others easily slip back into unconscious life once the turmoil passes.

The Enlightenment is a glorious thing, but it is also a dangerous thing — it must always be rescued from itself. The first way to do it is to refuse to whitewash its true legacy. Sign up for ...

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The assumptions of the Enlightenment, for some people nowadays, are naive, even dangerous. To make sense of such claims, it helps to step back and ask a simple question: ...

People generally seek enlightenment as an escape from the pain of life. Some continue to pursue it, while others easily slip back into unconscious life once the turmoil passes.