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

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Author / Creator:	Paulos Gregorios, 1922-1998.
Imprint:	Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1992.
Description:	1 online resource (261 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	SUNY series in religious studies SUNY series in religious studies.
Subject:	Enlightenment. Enlightenment. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11105027

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ISBN:	0585057389 9780585057385 0791411338 0791411346 9780791411339 9780791411346
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-252) and index. English. Print version record.
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."--Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Paulos Gregorios, 1922- Light too bright. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1992 0791411338

Table of Contents:

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.

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