general terms, Enlightenment goes back Plato’s belief truth beauty goo — Susan Neiman, Moral Clarity: A Guide Grown-up Idealists

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In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we're making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we're hold out for.)

Susan Neiman, Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists

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