Enlightenment science created monsters that were not theologically constructed.

Evidence

The Enlightenment’s focus on rationalism and science did the opposite of what might be expected, inspiring new legions of monsters in domestic and foreign spaces, rather than eradicating them. … All of this inspired new categories of monsters that emerged as a way for the imagination to express itself in socially acceptable ways that did not offend religious morals. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 352 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Enlightenment thought, and Western culture in general, emerged from a religious context which emphasised teleology and the achievement of God’s grace. Divine providence had long been a guiding idea of Christian thought. Without these preceding orientations, the Enlightenment would scarcely have been possible in the first place. It is in no way surprising that the advocacy of unfettered reason only reshaped the ideas of the providential, rather than displacing it. One type of certainty (divine law) was replaced by another (the certainty of our senses, of empirical observation), and divine providence was replaced by providential progress. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 122 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Enlightenment rationalism generated new monsters instead of eradicating them — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 352; Enlightenment science and Romanticism both renewed medieval Muslim-monster fantasies rather than ending them; Enlightenment and Romanticism both generated new Muslim monsters via different means (+3 more)

Related

• Enlightenment rationalism generated new monsters instead of eradicating them (similarity 0.92)
• Monotheism inadvertently created the cognitive conditions for atheism and science. (similarity 0.90)
• A theory is revolutionary by being openly antagonistic to all old thought (similarity 0.84)
• Enlightenment science and Romanticism both renewed medieval Muslim-monster fantasies rather than ending them (similarity 0.84)
• The Age of Exploration expanded rather than ended European monster-making (similarity 0.83)
• Enlightenment reason reshaped religious providence rather than displacing it (similarity 0.82)
• Anti-enlightenment ideology unconsciously reveres what it seeks to destroy (similarity 0.82)
• Enlightenment and Romanticism both generated new Muslim monsters via different means (similarity 0.81)
• Enlightenment critique domesticated monsters into pathological human degenerates (similarity 0.81)
• Scientific discovery and medieval revival generated new Muslim monsters (similarity 0.80)
• Enlightenment-era monsters lost radical alterity and became domestic deviants (similarity 0.79)
• Modern Muslim monsters rest on medieval fantasies (similarity 0.79)
• Enlightenment thinkers retained older anti-Muslim stereotypes (similarity 0.79)
• Enlightenment science itself formalized a taxonomy of human monsters. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Enlightenment rationalism generated new monsters instead of eradicating them #corroborates (0.90) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 352
• Enlightenment reason reshaped religious providence rather than displacing it #complicates (0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 122
• Enlightenment science and Romanticism both renewed medieval Muslim-monster fantasies rather than ending them #corroborates (0.70)
• Enlightenment and Romanticism both generated new Muslim monsters via different means #corroborates (0.70)