Was it also Feser who coined the phrase the ‘greatest superstition’ in reference to the belief that pure materialism could ground the moral and rational commitments required for modern society to function? That said, one might also say that Chesterton would, in his usual paradoxical style, that the Enlightenment had too little enlightenment, too little enchantment, holding firm to too much skepticism and mechanistic thinking, and not to the search for Truth and passionate embrace of mysticism. In the end, he’d probably label the intellectual fruits of the Enlightenment as the suicide of thought.
Was it also Feser who coined the phrase the ‘greatest superstition’ in reference to the belief that pure materialism could ground the moral and rational commitments required for modern society to function? That said, one might also say that Chesterton would, in his usual paradoxical style, that the Enlightenment had too little enlightenment, too little enchantment, holding firm to too much skepticism and mechanistic thinking, and not to the search for Truth and passionate embrace of mysticism. In the end, he’d probably label the intellectual fruits of the Enlightenment as the suicide of thought.