Reason, Spirit and the Sacral in the New Enlightenment

By: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

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Synopsis: Rationality in its various expressions and innumerable applications sustains understanding and our sense of reality. It is traditionally differentiated according to its sources in the soul: in consciousness, in reason, in experience, and in elevation. Such a functional approach, however, leaves us searching for the common foundation harmonizing these rationalities. The perennial quest to resolve the aporias of rationality is finding in contemporary science's focus on origins, on the generative roots of reality, tantalizing hints as to how this may be accomplished. This project is enhanced by the wave of recent phenomenology/ontopoiesis of life, which reveals the workings of the logos at the root of beingness and all rationality, whereby we gaze upon the prospect of a New Enlightenment. In the rays of this vision the revival of the intuitions of classical Islamic metaphysics, particularly intuition of the continuity of beingness in the gradations of life, receive fresh confirmation.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9789048196128
Related ISBNs:: 9789048196111
Publisher:: Springer Netherlands
Date of Addition:: 09/07/16
Copyrighted By:: Springer
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
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Categories:: Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Philosophy
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