The Enlightenment from Natural Law versus the Political Enlightenment that is Now Shaping America and Our Understanding of Philanthropy

Why Am I Assuming to Know Anything about Enlightenment?

I decided to launch into the subject of what enlightenment might be as I have watched the emotion and motivation wound up in Obama’s overhaul of America. There is an assumption on the Left that they are more enlightened than the rest of us, and so they are saving this nation and the world by forcing the rest of us to do what they want to do.

I like a lot of what the Left wants to do, and I like a lot of what the Right wants to do. In plenty of respects, the Left misses enlightenment so badly that it is scary to see how reluctant they are to self criticize, and how they frame the language of our discussion on identifying the common Good.

For example, is it intellectually honest the way the Left objectifies personalities on the Right so that they are diminished and caricaturized to the point that the Left simply laughs at the Right rather than deal seriously with their points, apprehensions and objections?

Is this how the enlightened teach us? Is this how they deal with people who just can’t quite see things their way yet?