[cornelis]

outright rejection of enlightenment assumptions

In this the postmodern is on track. Modernism was found to be a sham, because it rated reason to high. What, after all was so enlightening about the Enlightenment? That they held to keys to the golden grail of objectivity. It's too bad that those rejecting that assumption made the pendulum swing to rate reason too low.

You know there is one area where enlightenment assumptions still have a popular foothold: in science. On the other hand, the implications for law is profound.

[Helms]

I do believe that the Will is over Reason and that explains the whacked world we live in. There are those whose will to believe is overruled by his/her reason.

[Helms]

What, after all was so enlightening about the Enlightenment? That they held to keys to the golden grail of objectivity. "

Then infection by the German virus:

Kant, then Schopenhauer and the neo-Kantians, especially Fitche turned to a subjectivity that bordered on solipsism. Then Nietzsche-Heidegger and that was all she wrote.