The late great Francis Schaeffer showed in his books and TV series how modern, humanist man had attempted to find universal truth through reason alone and had failed.
The consequence of this failure was that humanist man then came to the conclusion that the pursuit of truth leads only to despair and therefore the road to 'happiness' or 'fulfilment' can only come through non-reason.
I don't think he realised just how prophetic he was at the time during which he was operating.
I have been working through his series; How Should We Then Live....
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwSQACrrFBXMdq-A3mQIZBeIw9e8GNwAW
...with my youngest son and I have been amazed at the perspicacity of his observations. It is also quite ironic to view scenes such as those in episode 8 where the young students of UC Berkeley riot in favour of free speech and then consider how that same university today has been at the forefront of closing down the very free speech that those 60's students fought for.
The series is worth a revisit.
"Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.” C. S. Lewis
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