Both humanities and reason in the modem context have direct connection with the Enlightenment. At the beginning, the Enlightenment of modem Europe had to some extent benefited from the light of reason in Taoist organi...Both humanities and reason in the modem context have direct connection with the Enlightenment. At the beginning, the Enlightenment of modem Europe had to some extent benefited from the light of reason in Taoist organic naturalism. However, as it expanded, Westem 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展开更多
文摘Both humanities and reason in the modem context have direct connection with the Enlightenment. At the beginning, the Enlightenment of modem Europe had to some extent benefited from the light of reason in Taoist organic naturalism. However, as it expanded, Westem 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
