Knight criticizes Frederick Beiser’s treatment of rationality in the early English Enlightenment because he “does not relate ‘reason’ to reasoning together, converse, public talk, and the skills of the development of public talk. Reason therefore for him never appears as faith doing what it must do to remain faithful – taking instruction, learning to think. Reason for Beiser appears to be precisely not tradition, inspiration, or Scripture. I have defined reason as what these three do together.”
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