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A consistent pessimism in regard to man's rational
capacity for justice leads to absolutistic political theories; for
they prompt the conviction that only preponderant power can coerce the
various vitalities of a community into a working harmony. " According to Nicholas Capaldi,
Enlightenment "reason" as a self-knowledge and as a useful
knowledge, especially pertaining to human nature, critically targeted
feudal economy, religious intolerance, and absolutistic governments. The rhetoric of Osama bin Laden and his
Al-Qaeda network is no less dualistic, absolutistic, immoderate, and
polarizing. |
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