A light too bright : the enlightenment today : an assessment of the values of the European enlightenment and a search for new foundations / Paulos Mar Gregorios.

By: Paulos Gregorios, 1922-1998

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TextSeries: SUNY series in religious studies: Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, c1992Description: 261 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 0791411338 (alk. paper); 0791411346 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): EnlightenmentAdditional physical formats: Online version:: Light too bright.DDC classification: 001 LOC classification: B802 | .P28 1992

Contents:

Getting Oriented -- Religion, Culture, and the Secular: Concepts to be Clarified -- What is the European Enlightenment? -- Europe: Adventure and Expansion -- Ideas: Hegel -- The Dialectics of the Enlightenment: Knowledge -- Its Function and Foundation -- Theory for Practice, Or the Other Way Around? -- Justice, Human Rights, and the State in European Civilization -- Science, Technology, and the Enlightenment: Will They Go On Reinforcing Each Other Indefinitely? -- Reason's Unreason: Ten Questionable Assumptions of Enlightenment Rationality -- Turning to the Other Enlightenment: The European Tradition Revisited -- The Twain Shall Be One: On Bringing the Two Enlightenments in Integral-Dialectical Relation to Each Other.

Summary: Questioning the very legitimacy of Western liberalism and the modern secular civilization it has given rise to, Dr. Gregorios critically examines the values of the European Enlightenment of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the corporate drive of European peoples by which they have dominated the external world. He shows that both Capitalism and Marxism, as well as Modern Science and Technology are creations of the same spirit. The powerful light of Critical Rationality emitted by the European Enlightenment is like the light of the sun. It is bright and helpful for seeing this world in detail, but too bright to let us see the night sky and the vast expanses of the universe. This "light too bright" eclipses the Transcendent. Dr. Gregorios invites us to appropriate the other Enlightenment of the overall-religious-cultural outlook in a new way and to relate it to the valid insights of the European Enlightenment.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-252) and index.

1. Getting Oriented -- 2. Religion, Culture, and the Secular: Concepts to be Clarified -- 3. What is the European Enlightenment? -- 4. Europe: Adventure and Expansion -- 5. Ideas: Hegel -- 6. The Dialectics of the Enlightenment: Knowledge -- Its Function and Foundation -- 7. Theory for Practice, Or the Other Way Around? -- 8. Justice, Human Rights, and the State in European Civilization -- 9. Science, Technology, and the Enlightenment: Will They Go On Reinforcing Each Other Indefinitely? -- 10. Reason's Unreason: Ten Questionable Assumptions of Enlightenment Rationality -- 11. Turning to the Other Enlightenment: The European Tradition Revisited -- 12. The Twain Shall Be One: On Bringing the Two Enlightenments in Integral-Dialectical Relation to Each Other.

Questioning the very legitimacy of Western liberalism and the modern secular civilization it has given rise to, Dr. Gregorios critically examines the values of the European Enlightenment of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the corporate drive of European peoples by which they have dominated the external world. He shows that both Capitalism and Marxism, as well as Modern Science and Technology are creations of the same spirit. The powerful light of Critical Rationality emitted by the European Enlightenment is like the light of the sun. It is bright and helpful for seeing this world in detail, but too bright to let us see the night sky and the vast expanses of the universe. This "light too bright" eclipses the Transcendent. Dr. Gregorios invites us to appropriate the other Enlightenment of the overall-religious-cultural outlook in a new way and to relate it to the valid insights of the European Enlightenment.

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