ABSTRACT
Dare to know—Sapere aude—is the motto that Emanuel Kant (1784) adopted in his titanic argument to mount Enlightenment in human reason. Today the motto has become an icon for modernism. However, Michel Foucault (1984) has famously challenged modernist foundationalist and universalist ambitions and redefined Enlightenment negatively as a historical critique of reason. The modernist naivety must be discarded, Foucault claimed; proposing that solace is only to be found in critique, deconstruction, and debunking. The post-modern condition is one of restlessness, conflict, and continual transition of epistemic and moral regimes.
