Toward A New Enlightenment

Author : Paul Kurtz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351294386

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Toward a New Enlightenment by Paul Kurtz Pdf

Paul Kurtz has been the dominant voice of secular humanism over the past thirty years. This compilation of his work reveals the scope of his thinking on the basic topics of our time and his many and varied contributions to the cause of free thought. It focuses on the central issues that have concerned Kurtz throughout his career: ethics, politics, education, religion, science, and pseudoscience. The chapters are linked by a common theme: the need for a new enlightenment, one committed to the use of rationality and skepticism, but also devoted to realizing the highest values of humanist culture. Many writings included here were first published in magazines and journals long unavailable. Some of the essays have never before been published. They now appear as a coherent whole for the first time. Also included is an extensive bibliography of Kurtz's writings. Toward a New Enlightenment is essential for those who know and admire Paul Kurtz's work. It will also be an important resource for students of philosophy, political science, ethics, and religion. Among the chapters are: "Humanist Ethics: Eating the Forbidden Fruit"; "Relevance of Science to Ethics"; "Democracy without Theology"; "Misuses of Civil Disobedience"; "The Limits of Tolerance"; "Skepticism about the Paranormal: Legitimate and Illegitimate"; "Militant Atheism vs. Freedom of Conscience"; "Promethean Love: Unbound"; "The Case for Euthanasia"; and "The New Inquisition in the Schools."

Author : Paul Kurtz,Vern L. Bullough,Tim Madigan
Publisher : Transaction Pub
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 1560001186

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Toward a New Enlightenment by Paul Kurtz,Vern L. Bullough,Tim Madigan Pdf

Paul Kurtz has been the dominant voice of secular humanism over the past thirty years. This compilation of his work reveals the scope of his thinking on the basic topics of our time and his many and varied contributions to the cause of free thought. It focuses on the central issues that have concerned Kurtz throughout his career: ethics, politics, education, religion, science, and pseudoscience. The chapters are linked by a common theme: the need for a new enlightenment, one committed to the use of rationality and skepticism, but also devoted to realizing the highest values of humanist culture. Many writings included here were first published in magazines and journals long unavailable. Some of the essays have never before been published. They now appear as a coherent whole for the first time. Also included is an extensive bibliography of Kurtz's writings. Toward a New Enlightenment is essential for those who know and admire Paul Kurtz's work. It will also be an important resource for students of philosophy, political science, ethics, and religion. Among the chapters are: "Humanist Ethics: Eating the Forbidden Fruit"; "Relevance of Science to Ethics"; "Democracy without Theology"; "Misuses of Civil Disobedience"; "The Limits of Tolerance"; "Skepticism about the Paranormal: Legitimate and Illegitimate"; "Militant Atheism vs. Freedom of Conscience"; "Promethean Love: Unbound"; "The Case for Euthanasia"; and "The New Inquisition in the Schools."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Turner
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8417141219

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Towards a New Enlightenment? by Anonim Pdf

Addresses key issues in understanding the decade 2008-2018 and its impact on the societies of the future. Brings together the articles B28of twenty-two prestigious international experts in different fields of thought. Through an informative approach, the essays form a transversal view of today's thinking. This is the tenth title of the Open Mind essay collection published by BBVA. A27.0We are living through years of great importance, marked by the unstoppable evolution of technology, science and the information society. This book brings together twenty-two essays written by prestigious researchers from the world's leading universities on areas as diverse as crucial to our future: climate change, artificial intelligence, economics, cyber-security and geopolitics, democracy, anthropology, new media, astrophysics and cosmology, nanotechnology, biomedicine, globalisation, gender theory and the cities of the future.

Author : Geri Larkin
Publisher : Celestial Arts
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307808134

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Stumbling Toward Enlightenment by Geri Larkin Pdf

A humorous and honest collection of Buddhist wisdom from a Western beginner'­s perspective. Instead of promising a straight and clear path to enlightenment, author and teacher Geri Larkin shows us that even stumbling along that path can lead to self-discovery and awakening, especially if we prize the journey and not the destination. With candor, affection, and earthy wisdom, Larkin shares her experiences as a beginning and continuing Buddhist. This spirituality classic shows any seeker that it's possible to stumble, smile, and stay Zen through it all.

Author : Peter B. Kaufman
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781644210611

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The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge by Peter B. Kaufman Pdf

How do we create a universe of truthful and verifiable information, available to everyone? In The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge, MIT Open Learning’s Peter B. Kaufman describes the powerful forces that have purposely crippled our efforts to share knowledge widely and freely. Popes and their inquisitors, emperors and their hangmen, commissars and their secret police—throughout history, all have sought to stanch the free flow of information. Kaufman writes of times when the Bible could not be translated—you’d be burned for trying; when dictionaries and encyclopedias were forbidden; when literature and science and history books were trashed and pulped—sometimes along with their authors; and when efforts to develop public television and radio networks were quashed by private industry. In the 21st century, the enemies of free thought have taken on new and different guises—giant corporate behemoths, sprawling national security agencies, gutted regulatory commissions. Bereft of any real moral compass or sense of social responsibility, their work to surveil and control us are no less nefarious than their 16th- and 18th- and 20th- century predecessors. They are all part of what Kaufman calls the Monsterverse. The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge maps out the opportunities to mobilize for the fight ahead of us. With the Internet and other means of media production and distribution—video especially—at hand, knowledge institutions like universities, libraries, museums, and archives have a special responsibility now to counter misinformation, disinformation, and fake news—and especially efforts to control the free flow of information. A film and video producer and former book publisher, Kaufman begins to draft a new social contract for our networked video age. He draws his inspiration from those who fought tooth and nail against earlier incarnations of the Monsterverse—including William Tyndale in the 16th century; Denis Diderot in the 18th; untold numbers of Soviet and Central and East European dissidents in the 20th—many of whom paid the ultimate price. Their successors? Advocates of free knowledge like Aaron Swartz, of free software like Richard Stallman, of an enlightened public television and radio network like James Killian, of a freer Internet like Tim Berners-Lee, of fuller rights and freedoms like Edward Snowden. All have been striving to secure for us a better world, marked by the right balance between state, society, and private gain. The concluding section of the book, its largest piece, builds on their work, drawing up a progressive agenda for how today’s free thinkers can band together now to fight and win. With everything shut and everyone going online, The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge is a rousing call to action that expands the definition of what it means to be a citizen in the 21st century.

Author : Gerald A. Larue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Free thought
ISBN : 0931779030

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Freethought Across the Centuries by Gerald A. Larue Pdf

Author : M. Hakan Yavuz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199927999

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Toward an Islamic Enlightenment by M. Hakan Yavuz Pdf

M. Hakan Yavuz offers an insightful and wide-ranging study of the Gulen Movement, one of the most controversial developments in contemporary Islam. Founded in Turkey by the Muslim thinker Fethullah Gulen, the Gulen Movement aims to disseminate a ''moderate'' interpretation of Islam through faith-based education. Its activities have fundamentally altered religious and political discourse in Turkey in recent decades, and its schools and other institutions have been established throughout Central Asia and the Balkans, as well as western Europe and North America. Consequently, its goals and modus operandi have come under increasing scrutiny around the world. Yavuz introduces readers to the movement, its leader, its philosophies, and its practical applications. After recounting Gulen's personal history, he analyzes Gulen's theological outlook, the structure of the movement, its educational premise and promise, its financial structure, and its contributions (particularly to debates in the Turkish public sphere), its scientific outlook, and its role in interfaith dialogue. Towards an Islamic Enlightenment shows the many facets of the movement, arguing that it is marked by an identity paradox: despite its tremendous contribution to the introduction of a moderate, peaceful, and modern Islamic outlook-so different from the Iranian or Saudi forms of radical and political Islam-the Gulen Movement is at once liberal and communitarian, provoking both hope and fear in its works and influence.

Author : Stephen Eric Bronner
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231126083

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Reclaiming the Enlightenment by Stephen Eric Bronner Pdf

In 1947 Horkheimer and Adorno connected the Enlightenment with totalitarianism. Since when the Left has drifted into the language and imagery of the European Counter-Enlightenment, the movement against 1776 and 1789. Bronner sets out to reclaim the heritage of progressive politics.

Author : Wayne Wirs
Publisher : Missing Man Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0976358107

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Fading Toward Enlightenment by Wayne Wirs Pdf

"Though I didn't know it at the time, I heard the Siren's song within my mother's womb. Even before I was born, I was being drawn to my death."Thus begins the true story of a gifted photographer's quest for inner peace. Beautifully illustrated with over 75 fine-art, B/W images, "Fading Toward Enlightenment" takes the reader on a modern-day hero's journey. From the anguish of self-loathing, through the confusion of the search, past the traps of the mind - photographer and author, Wayne Wirs leads the reader on an epic tale of his personal quest for tranquility in the midst of today's fast-paced world.Following no particular school of thought or religious practice, the author recounts his journey from a typical, normal, solid life to one that is dynamic, flowing and at times filled with the Divine. Students of meditation, eastern philosophy, and the esoteric - as well as fans of "The Celestine Prophecy", "The Power of Now", and "The Tao Te Ching" - will find a voice that resonates True in the author's poetic words and inspiring images."Fading Toward Enlightenment" is one of the most honest and beautifully illustrated accounts of the modern spiritual search to date. Its powerful images, inspiring quotes and compelling text harmonize subtly to immerse the reader in this heart-felt and moving narrative.

Author : Theodor Adorno,Max Horkheimer
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786635532

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Towards a New Manifesto by Theodor Adorno,Max Horkheimer Pdf

Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer wrote the central text of “critical theory”, Dialectic of Enlightenment, a measured critique of the Enlightenment reason that, they argued, had resulted in fascism and totalitarianism. Towards a New Manifesto shows the two philosophers in a uniquely spirited and free-flowing exchange of ideas. This book is a record of their discussions over three weeks in the spring of 1956, recorded with a view to the production of a contemporary version of The Communist Manifesto. A philosophical jam-session in which the two thinkers improvise freely, often wildly, on central themes of their work—theory and practice, labor and leisure, domination and freedom—in a political register found nowhere else in their writing. Amid a careening flux of arguments, aphorisms and asides, in which the trenchant alternates with the reckless, the playful with the ingenuous, positions are swapped and contradictions unheeded, without any compulsion for consistency. A thrilling example of philosophy in action and a compelling map of a possible passage to a new world.

Author : Dirk Helbing
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3319908685

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Towards Digital Enlightenment by Dirk Helbing Pdf

This new collection of essays follows in the footsteps of the successful volume Thinking Ahead - Essays on Big Data, Digital Revolution, and Participatory Market Society, published at a time when our societies were on a path to technological totalitarianism, as exemplified by mass surveillance reported by Edward Snowden and others. Meanwhile the threats have diversified and tech companies have gathered enough data to create detailed profiles about almost everyone living in the modern world - profiles that can predict our behavior better than our friends, families, or even partners. This is not only used to manipulate peoples’ opinions and voting behaviors, but more generally to influence consumer behavior at all levels. It is becoming increasingly clear that we are rapidly heading towards a cybernetic society, in which algorithms and social bots aim to control both the societal dynamics and individual behaviors. span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: However there are also silver linings: most of the threats that have accumulated over the past years have been identified and regulations are on the way to being introduced. Furthermore, entirely novel approaches based on blockchain technology and other developments derived from complexity science offer the possibility of entirely redefining collective trust and building platforms to support our core societal values. span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: This book conveys an encouraging vision of the future and provides a sketch of how it may look: The road to digital enlightenment is still open, but it needs to be taken now./pbrp

Author : Anh Tuan Nguyen,Michael Dukakis,Ramu Damodaran,Alex Pentland,Shinzo Abe,Ashton Carter,Vint Cerf,Nazli Choucri,Eva Kaili,Robin Kelly,Ban Ki-moon,Didzis K?avi??,Taro Kono,Zlatko Lagumdzija,Stavros Lambrinidis,Ursula von der Leyen,Yasuhide Nakayama,Paul Nemitz,Andreas Norlén,Joseph Nye,Zaneta Ozolina,Thomas Patterson,Judea Pearl,Iain Duncan Smith,Vaira Vike-Freiberga
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578950375

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Remaking the World - the Age of Global Enlightenment by Anh Tuan Nguyen,Michael Dukakis,Ramu Damodaran,Alex Pentland,Shinzo Abe,Ashton Carter,Vint Cerf,Nazli Choucri,Eva Kaili,Robin Kelly,Ban Ki-moon,Didzis K?avi??,Taro Kono,Zlatko Lagumdzija,Stavros Lambrinidis,Ursula von der Leyen,Yasuhide Nakayama,Paul Nemitz,Andreas Norlén,Joseph Nye,Zaneta Ozolina,Thomas Patterson,Judea Pearl,Iain Duncan Smith,Vaira Vike-Freiberga Pdf

"Remaking the World - the Age of Global Enlightenment" proposes pathways toward a more humane, peaceful, and secure world, largely by harnessing the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI), blockchain, and other Digital Age technologies. A key proposal is the adoption of an AI International Accord that would bind nations to constructive uses of AI and prohibit destructive uses. The book proposes a Social Contract for the AI Age as the theoretical and ethical foundation of the Accord. The book also proposes the AI World Society (AIWS) as a vehicle through which individuals and civic organizations can help foster an Age of Global Enlightenment.

Author : Robert E. Carter
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791490303

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Encounter with Enlightenment by Robert E. Carter Pdf

In Encounter with Enlightenment, Robert E. Carter puts forth the East, and specifically Japan, as a source of possible solutions to the world's social, economic, and environmental problems. Not only is the book a sustained scholarly analysis of both the religious and philosophical roots of Japan's distinctive ethical approach to life, but it also provides the Western reader with a context for understanding Eastern values—values that although familiar to the West tend to be deemphasized. Encounter with Enlightenment begins a horizontal fusion between East and West, and establishes a common ground for mutual understanding and for working toward an ethical approach that could resolve some of the earth's difficulties.

Author : Markus Gabriel ,Christoph Horn ,Anna Katsman ,Wilhelm Krull ,Anna Luisa Lippold ,Corine Pelluchon ,Ingo Venzke
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783837665703

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Towards a New Enlightenment – The Case for Future-Oriented Humanities by Markus Gabriel ,Christoph Horn ,Anna Katsman ,Wilhelm Krull ,Anna Luisa Lippold ,Corine Pelluchon ,Ingo Venzke Pdf

What role can the humanities play in shaping our common future? What are the values that guide us in the 21st century? How can we unleash the potential the humanities offer in a time of multiple crises? This volume tackles some of these fundamental questions, acknowledging and developing the changing role of academic discourse in a turbulent world. This timely book argues that the humanities engender conceptual tools that are capable of reconciling theory and practice. In a bold move, we call for the humanities to reach beyond the confines of universities and engage in the most urgent debates facing humanity today – in a multidisciplinary, transformative, and constructive way. This is a blueprint for how societal change can be inclusive and equitable for the good of humans and non-humans alike.

Author : Peter Heinegg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780761864172

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Dim and Dimmer by Peter Heinegg Pdf

In today's world, we are witnessing both the spread of a hopeful secular humanism and the persistence of cultural traditions that mindlessly glorify humans and are paving the path to environmental collapse. Peter Heinegg addresses how we are now on a collision course heading toward ecological catastrophe—the one solution to this being a true “agonizing reappraisal” of who we are and how we do things. In Dim and Dimmer, Peter Heinegg tackles the question: “Can the ‘New Enlightenment’ already dawning save the day?”