From Enlightenment to Receptivity: Rethinking Our Values, Slote Michael

Beginning with a critique of Enlightenment thinking that calls into question its denial of any central role to considerations of emotion and empathy, he goes on to show how a greater emphasis on these factors and on the receptivity that underlies them can give us a more realistic, balanced, and
sensitive understanding of our core ethical and epistemological values. This means rejecting post-modernisms blanket rejection of reason and of compelling real values and recognizing, rather, that receptivity should play a major role in how we lead our lives as individuals, in how we relate to
nature, in how we acquire knowledge about the world, and in how we relate morally and politically with others.