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  • Can Democrats Criticize the Enlightenment?

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesCan democrats criticize the Enlightenment? In Harold Kaplan’s analysis of modern literature, he doesn’t criticize the Enlightenment (late 17th to early 19th century), but he mentions it as a timeframe for a modern state of mind which has been detrimental to western thought.1 He doesn’t criticize the Enlightenment in Democratic Humanism and…

  • Debating the Enlightenment and its Alternatives

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    Reading Time: 22 minutesThis is a summary and critique of a debate hosted by the Institute of Art and Ideas. In the videos cited below, Steven Pinker and John Mearsheimer debate the Enlightenment and its alternatives. The subtitle is, Which ideals are the best guide to human betterment?

  • Laudato Si’ and Progressivism

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesOur environmental problems are the result of 200 years of industrialization. The philosophical and technological developments that enabled the Industrial Revolution were made possible by the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment was not only independent of the Catholic Church, it opposed the authority of the Church.  Therefore, the Church is in a unique position…

  • Was the Enlightenment a Democratic Movement?

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesAccording to Harold Kaplan, Americans do not question the effects on the United States of the Reformation and the Enlightenment. But was the Enlightenment a democratic movement? Kaplan wrote: “We do not question that the twin roots of American national history were the religious revolution, which broke the Catholic hegemony, and the…

  • What is Necessary to American Democracy and What Can be Changed?

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesIt seems to me the American left has some housecleaning or path-clearing to do, historically speaking.  Important questions must be asked if we want to feel confident about our course of action. Hopefully, answering these questions will supply the energy the left is lacking.  These questions have to do with the basis…

  • The Lord of Creatures

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    Reading Time: 5 minutesIn Hermes in India a discussion began about the Lord of Creatures.  It is now obvious that this subject is more difficult than I imagined. There are several related terms that have to do with the nature of God. They have similar meanings, but they can belong to completely different gods. Dumézil said…

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