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Taoist Humanities and Re-enlightenment
YU Ru-song
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2018.02.019
Shandong University, Jinan, China
Both humanities and reason in the modern context have direct connection with the Enlightenment. At the beginning, the Enlightenment of modern Europe had to some extent benefited from the light of reason in Taoist organic naturalism. However, as it expanded, Western rationalism experienced lack of counterbalance from humanities in the Western culture. As a result, the Enlightenment has not brought a healthy civilization as initially anticipated, and has made human nature forfeit once more in the new authority of rationalism. Facing the morbid or gray civilization brought by the Enlightenment, Taoism, which is rich in the spirit of humanistic concern and humanistic reason, will certainly once again become a beacon of the Re-enlightenment.
Taoism, humanistic concern, humanistic reason, re-enlightenment
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