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A Light Too Bright: The Enlightenment Today: An Assessment of the Values of the European Enlightenment and a Search for New Foundations fo
Contributor(s): Gregorios, Paulos Mar (Author)

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 ISBN: 0791411338     ISBN-13: 9780791411339
Publisher: State University of New York Press
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 1992
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Dewey: 001
LCCN: 91-30801
Series: Suny Series, Religious Studies
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.8" W x 9.1" L (1.23 lbs) 261 pages
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
 
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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, he argues.

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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