Here, the Enlightenment paradigm is the book's working title for the modern belief that the world can be made intelligible through reason, critique, observation, measurement and public scrutiny – and from there improved through science, rights and technology. It is broader than the 18th-century Enlightenment and should be read as an interpretive framework, not as the name of a single unified historical doctrine.
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