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The Enlightenment, ironically, stands out as a turning point where the brilliance of thinkers such as Newton Descartes and Bacon, became a double-edged sword for the humanistic and Logos-centred Liberal Arts.
The most glaring difficulty is the pre-eminence of scientific rationalism, that has tended to write the importance of narrative, imagination, emotion and transcendental truths out of human culture.