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The Problem of Historicism
2012,2014,2016
Overview
We have seen in chapters 2 and 3 Strauss and Fackenheim’s diagnosis of the crisis of modernity: the lack of an authoritative standard by which to judge morality. Both thinkers trace the crisis to the post-Enlightenment attempt to synthesize reason and revelation, a synthesis that applied the idea of progress and a new definition of ‘nature,’ introduced by Machiavelli and the promoters of the new science, to the revelatory sphere; or, more broadly, that introduced the anthropocentric stance of modern rational thought to the revelatory sphere.¹ The result was historicism: the idea that changes in human thinking literally change the
