Intellectuals differ from ordinary academics in holding that the truth is best approached not by producing new knowledge, but by destroying old belief. When the Enlightenment philosophers renovated the old Christian slogan, “The truth shall set you free,” they imagined a process of opening doors, not building barricades.
与普通的学院派有别的知识分子认为，真理的获得并不在于建立新的知识体系，而在于摧毁旧的信仰。“真理将使你获得自由”，18世纪欧洲启蒙运动的哲学家们刷新了旧的基督教口号。他们设想了一个开放的过程，而不是设置障碍。