Tag: Enlightenment

Erasmus said, ‘In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king’. This is a myth perpetuated during the Enlightenment.

The Emissary Who Forgot to Bow: On Erasmus, Wells, and the Delusion of Universal Reason

I considered this in the context of other accounts, such as HG Wells’ The Country of the Blind (also PDF), Plato’s Allegory of the Cave (PDF), and Iain McGilchrist’s The Master and His Emissary. They tell a different story.

I also created a NotebookLM podcast summary of this article.