1. The Illusion of Utopia
... 40 "Religious Muggeridge--page 41 Chapter 2-Muggeridge's Philosophy-page 43 CONCLUSION-page 46 PART I (THE STATUS QUO) ?Introduction Enlightenment thought served as the central basis for utopian politics. French thinkers like Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu and Jean Jacques Rousseau dreamed of recreating the best aspects of former political systems through improving people. Condorcet was ... philosopher. He thought humans tended toward perfection, or at least improvement, despite evidence to the contrary. Thus, his teleological (ends-based) philosophy is called a science o...
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