The Enlightenment yesterday and today
<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>Enlightenment means the conjunction of reason and autonomy, but also an attitude of comitment in the defense of justice. Nowadays we are living in a time that can be described like a crisis of civilization and it is urgent to recover a...
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
2018-11-01
|
Series: | Bajo Palabra |
Online Access: | https://revistas.uam.es/bajopalabra/article/view/10246 |
_version_ | 1811277321252896768 |
---|---|
author | Luciano Espinosa |
author_facet | Luciano Espinosa |
author_sort | Luciano Espinosa |
collection | DOAJ |
description | <p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>Enlightenment means the conjunction of reason and autonomy, but also an attitude of comitment in the defense of justice. Nowadays we are living in a time that can be described like a crisis of civilization and it is urgent to recover and adapt some of the anthropological, cognitive, ethical and political keys of the Enlightenment in order to palliate it. Specially, it is necessary to face to these kinds of problems: the preservation of the ecological life conditions and the search of truth, what involve the climate change and the manipulation of emotions by capitalism and populism.</p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> enlightenment, crisis, reason, emotion, history.</p> |
first_indexed | 2024-04-13T00:14:50Z |
format | Article |
id | doaj.art-70fcfab37c2d40849dfb466d764ca32c |
institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
issn | 1576-3935 1887-505X |
language | English |
last_indexed | 2024-04-13T00:14:50Z |
publishDate | 2018-11-01 |
publisher | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
record_format | Article |
series | Bajo Palabra |
spelling | doaj.art-70fcfab37c2d40849dfb466d764ca32c2022-12-22T03:10:58ZengUniversidad Autónoma de MadridBajo Palabra1576-39351887-505X2018-11-0101810.15366/bp2018.18.0078858The Enlightenment yesterday and todayLuciano Espinosa0Universidad de Sevilla<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>Enlightenment means the conjunction of reason and autonomy, but also an attitude of comitment in the defense of justice. Nowadays we are living in a time that can be described like a crisis of civilization and it is urgent to recover and adapt some of the anthropological, cognitive, ethical and political keys of the Enlightenment in order to palliate it. Specially, it is necessary to face to these kinds of problems: the preservation of the ecological life conditions and the search of truth, what involve the climate change and the manipulation of emotions by capitalism and populism.</p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> enlightenment, crisis, reason, emotion, history.</p>https://revistas.uam.es/bajopalabra/article/view/10246 |
spellingShingle | Luciano Espinosa The Enlightenment yesterday and today Bajo Palabra |
title | The Enlightenment yesterday and today |
title_full | The Enlightenment yesterday and today |
title_fullStr | The Enlightenment yesterday and today |
title_full_unstemmed | The Enlightenment yesterday and today |
title_short | The Enlightenment yesterday and today |
title_sort | enlightenment yesterday and today |
url | https://revistas.uam.es/bajopalabra/article/view/10246 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT lucianoespinosa theenlightenmentyesterdayandtoday AT lucianoespinosa enlightenmentyesterdayandtoday |