Trying to dislodge false beliefs with scientific facts rarely results in grateful enlightenment.
How long would that enlightenment last in the face of a false accusation or misunderstanding?
Obama moved from real reason, how people really think, to false reason, a traditional view coming out of the Enlightenment and favored by all too many liberals.
The presumption that assigns "practical" Hinduism to peasants, labourers, or tribal peoples while assuming that the high-born, wealthy, and educated would be concerned with spiritual enlightenment and Hinduism's ultimate aim of liberation (moksha)—is false.
First, as a matter of historical fact, it is simply false that rights claims have their conceptual roots in the soil of late medieval nominalism and Enlightenment morality, as MacIntyre claims.
The final Enlightenment remains the ultimate ideal of all Buddhists, to be attained by ridding oneself of false beliefs and the hindrance of passions.
Then, learning in a later section what could be done with potatoes and mustard — the potato, with its false promise of cheap nutrition for all, is, I suppose, meant to represent the false hope of the Enlightenment in Germany, but the mustard surely could represent the saving genius of the Bavarian rococo — I made a gratin with mustard to accompany it.
Moreover, this argument is dangerously redolent of that lousy old Marxist trope of "false consciousness", whereby people enthusiastically following the supposedly wrong cause are only a speech or poster away from enlightenment, and a sharp left turn.
Any enlightenment appreciated".
