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ENLIGHTENMENT REASON 5. It develops a distorted worldview where confusion is identified with the questions of how do I know, what are the limits of knowing, what are the condition of knowledge of which lead to ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ 1, agnosticism, 2. relativism, 3. skepticism. 4. Naturalism 6. Reductionism 6. We lose confidence in the very idea of truth, goodness and beauty when we reduce all of them to matter, atom, mechanism, opinion, taste or emotion. 7. In the end these systems seek and struggle to avoid questions of life/death, truth/goodness, love and hate, being and non - being, faith and reason in human existence