Ideas of universal, natural justice and the rights of man along with republicanism, liberty, and equality as moral imperatives are the central, distinctly political heritage of the Enlightenment, all of them inherited from the ancient, pagan world by way of Christianity and Rome.
To say they are, as moral ideas, delusory is not to say they are pernicious, and their historic role has been far from that, judging by their overall social impact.
But it is just that impact that the counter-Enlightenment deplores.
Preparing for Zeev Sternhell, Les anti-Lumieres: Du XVIIIe siecle a la guerre froide.
I ordered it weeks ago.
Not here yet.
Update.
Turns out the order was cancelled.
Still working on finding out why.
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