The Shadows of Totalization, Part II

As we use them in our conversation, these appear to have an overtone of totality or totalization,


Systematicity;
Absolutism;
Clericism;
Dogmatism;
Positivism;
Intellectualism;
Gestalt cognition;
Anything claiming a power to resist critique.

These aren’t the same, and not all seem closely related or easily connected to each other, (though no doubt we could connect them should we wish to do so.) But I think some of our confusion regarding the extent of the Enlightenment’s totalizing tendencies arise because we don’t distinguish them very well. For example, Kant is clearly anti-dogmatic, and yet is also a systematic philosopher of the "grand Germanic tradition."