Political Science · Western Political Thought
Which of the following thinkers was critical of the discourse on modernity and the Enlightenment?
ANietzsche ✓ Correct
BJ.S. Mill
CDavid Hume
DBosanquet
Correct answer: (A) Nietzsche — Nietzsche was critical of the discourse on modernity and the Enlightenment.
Explanation
★Nietzsche was critical of the discourse on modernity and the Enlightenment.
★He questioned the faith in reason, progress and universal truth.
★He attacked the moral and rational confidence of the age.
★Mill and Hume worked within the broad Enlightenment tradition.
★Bosanquet was an idealist who did not lead this critique.
★So the critic of Enlightenment modernity is Nietzsche.
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