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Between Two Enlightenments : Chaumer Essays - Lance St John Butler

Between Two Enlightenments

Chaumer Essays

By: Lance St John Butler

Hardcover | 2 September 2021

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Have we been fooling ourselves? Has the almost complete takeover of culture by the thinking of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment come without a cost? The sequel to the Enlightenment, known as modern life, has expanded our horizons enormously but it has also reduced and restricted us. We have lost identity and relationship and our minds have become fragmented and are often little short of foolish. In particular we havenât found a way of prioritising, as we must, the only things we surely have: consciousness and (hence) experience. These things are what the word âlifeâ means.

We need some form of detachment from the empty counting and measuring that are at the heart of the Enlightenment project. We need to focus less on having, and less even on doing, when our task is being. A more Buddhist detachment may restore our own experience to us and get us beyond the impasses of politics and mechanical science. We need less focus on the outside and more on the inside, for that is where our lives are actually lived.

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