First Blog Post: The Enlightenment Legacy

In The Idea of a Free Press, Copeland writes about the legacy of the Enlightenment, a legacy that emphasizes human reason. Enlightenment thinkers, Copeland says, "combined their religious beliefs with a new way of looking at the world." That is, God gave humankind the ability to reason and thus people could understand the world around them, even man himself. As Copeland writes, summarizing Enlightenment thinking, "God could not, would not, reveal, create, or act in any manner contrary to humankind's ability to reason." 

Questions: What do you think of this Enlightenment idea? Did it make sense in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? Does it make sense today? Why or why not?