There are several candidate explanations for this loss of faith in the powers of reason. In our cultural moment of ‘learning from the Classics’, I’m drawn to that proposed by ER Dodds—at the melancholy end of his masterpiece ‘The Greeks & the Irrational’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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