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Article: Merold Westphal replies. (Features).(response to Douglas Groothuis' response to Westphal's original article)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- July 26, 2003
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I THANK Douglas Groothuis for his response, but I cannot agree that the "Enlightenment project" as described by postmodernism is a "caricature" that "may loosely fit Descartes, but few others." It is essential to the rationalist philosophers Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz; and in his own utterly unique way Hegel also holds that philosophy can be a presuppositionless science, transcending all particular and contingent perspectives. In yet another distinctive manner, Husserl presents phenomenology as the method that will enable philosophy to be rigorous, presuppositionless science.
It is true that Kant and the empiricists place limits on the extent of our ...