Reason and Its Foes

Where logic and empirical evidence are replaced by "alternative facts", the scope for ideologically driven thinking expands and tolerance declines. Thilo Sarrazin has observed this trend in recent years across the political spectrum and in many media outlets. It is incompatible with the spirit of the Western Enlightenment and can call into question the foundations of our democratic and liberal social order. Sarrazin explains the dangers of ideological thinking for our society and our political culture and describes typical misconceptions. Ideologies are enticing due to the deceptive clarity of their solutions and the simplicity with which they separate good from evil. But this is how humanity stumbles into ever new errors.

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