Darkened Enlightenment
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Darkened Enlightenment
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Author : Tim Delaney
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-04-27
Darkened Enlightenment written by Tim Delaney and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-27 with History categories.
The premise of Darkened Enlightenment is to highlight the fact that there currently exist a number of socio-political forces that have the design, or ultimate consequence, of trying to extinguish the light of reason and rationality. The book presents a critique of modernity and provides a socio-political and cultural analysis of world society in the early twenty-first century. Specifically, this analysis examines the deterioration of democracy, human rights, and rational thought. Key features include a combination of academic analysis that draws on numerous and specific examples of the growing darkness that surrounds us along with a balanced practical, everyday-life approach to the study of the socio-political world we live in through the use of popular culture references and featured boxes. The general audience will also be intrigued by these same topics that concern academics including: a discussion on the meaning of "fake news"; attacks on the media and a declaration of the news media as the "enemy of the people"; the rise of populism and nationalism around the world; the deterioration of freedom and human rights globally; the growing economic disparity between the rich and the poor; attempts to devalue education; a growing disbelief in science; attacks on the environment; pseudoscience as a by-product of unreasoned and irrational thinking; the political swamp; the power elites and the deep state; and the variations of Big Business that impact our daily lives. This book will make a great contribution to such fields as sociology, philosophy, political science, environmental science, public administration, economics, psychology, and cultural studies.
The Dark Side Of The Enlightenment Wizards Alchemists And Spiritual Seekers In The Age Of Reason
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Author : John V. Fleming
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2013-07-22
The Dark Side Of The Enlightenment Wizards Alchemists And Spiritual Seekers In The Age Of Reason written by John V. Fleming and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-22 with History categories.
Why spiritual and supernatural yearnings, even investigations into the occult, flourished in the era of rationalist philosophy. In The Dark Side of the Enlightenment, John V. Fleming shows how the impulses of the European Enlightenment—generally associated with great strides in the liberation of human thought from superstition and traditional religion—were challenged by tenacious religious ideas or channeled into the “darker” pursuits of the esoteric and the occult. His engaging topics include the stubborn survival of the miraculous, the Enlightenment roles of Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, and the widespread pursuit of magic and alchemy. Though we tend not to associate what was once called alchemy with what we now call chemistry, Fleming shows that the difference is merely one of linguistic modernization. Alchemy was once the chemistry, of Arabic derivation, and its practitioners were among the principal scientists and physicians of their ages. No point is more important for understanding the strange and fascinating figures in this book than the prestige of alchemy among the learned men of the age. Fleming follows some of these complexities and contradictions of the “Age of Lights” into the biographies of two of its extraordinary offspring. The first is the controversial wizard known as Count Cagliostro, the “Egyptian” freemason, unconventional healer, and alchemist known most infamously for his ambiguous association with the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, which history has viewed as among the possible harbingers of the French Revolution and a major contributing factor in the growing unpopularity of Marie Antoinette. Fleming also reviews the career of Julie de Krüdener, the sentimental novelist, Pietist preacher, and political mystic who would later become notorious as a prophet. Impressively researched and wonderfully erudite, this rich narrative history sheds light on some lesser-known mental extravagances and beliefs of the Enlightenment era and brings to life some of the most extraordinary characters ever encountered either in history or fiction.
The Dark Side Of Enlightenment
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Author : J H Muller
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-01-01
The Dark Side Of Enlightenment written by J H Muller and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-01 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
The Dark side of enlightenment highlights the search, application and the effect of knowledge in new age, spiritual and other fringe areas in our daily lives. It deals with the social and cultural issues in the modern world as we can move around freely between borders and experience international media in every corner of the world. It deals with the individual's internal strife created through the bias of media and the adoption of the dominating materialistic world religion at all costs. It raises the moral question on the agenda and collateral both of international warfare, world politics and personal cut throat careers as the author tries to find a middle ground between physical and spiritual growth and survival in a modern lifestyle while applying age old values. The dilemma is given context by means of the author's autobiography in order to highlight how subtle change creates perception which could be both a blessing and a curse. Today we live in future times where our private lives are increasingly public and the last freedom that the author resorts to is that of the mind. An individual can transcend an invisible boundary from which nothing will ever look the same, not even the mind which posited the question in the first place as pointed out by Nietzsche. The Dark side of enlightenment is written chronologically starting with the life of the author. This is done in order to give an insight into a "normal" life for the reader. Slowly as life move into the teenage years peer pressure and teenager behavior exercises pressure on the author to which he respond accordingly with reasoning based upon experience gained up to that point in life. As we progress in the autobiography opinions become more visible through thought experiments. There is a peak in experience due to large number of critical experiences such as parenting, changing job, countries and cultural background which allows for the development of a moral baseline and reasoning. The later chapters deal with society and the external environment such as the media which had now become the peer-pressure of a young professional trying to find his feet in life. With the relocation to another country, a period of stability allowed for reflective reasoning of past experiences which not only gave valuable time for research but time to deal with solutions. There is a selection of blog articles which do not form part of the core of The Dark side of enlightenment but they allow for thought experiments and further inductive reasoning of the reader. Because of our busy lives we often look at experiences as single moments in time. The backdrop of the autobiography enables one to see these individual moments snowball into a cumulative life experience that defines us and our future. This book is a culmination of the work on ranging from Rudolf Steiner, Helena Blavatsky, Plato, Karl Marx including more recent authors like Malcolm Gladwell and giants such as William F Engdahl, Noam Chomsky. The work includes experiences of the author and the outlook of age old tradition and its value to mankind. The backdrop is the author's life in the IT industry and exposure to banking and financial institutions and the inner workings of these powerful companies. The philosophical outlook amalgamates with the classic works in science such as Einstein's theories and the dancing Wu-Li masters and other scientific pieces such as The China Study. Not only does it highlight the perils an individual face in the future but also the possible avenues to overcome them. It shares the outlook and journey of the author in order that any individual can find a path to peace through the various avenues explored in this book.
The Diversity Of Darkness And Shameful Behaviors
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Author : Tim Delaney
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-05-06
The Diversity Of Darkness And Shameful Behaviors written by Tim Delaney and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-06 with Social Science categories.
The premise of The Diversity of Darkness and Shameful Behaviors is to emphasize the need for enlightened, rational thinking as a paradigm of thought as the culture of shamelessness continues to grow and cast its repulsive dark shadow over those who embrace enlightened reason and basic human rights for all. Diversity of Darkness is an innovative work and represents the third book of a trilogy written by the author that underscores the reality that there are many shamefully hateful and deadly behavioral threats that have jeopardized the very notions of civility, decency and justice around the world. This unique book utilizes evidence-based approaches in the examination of human behaviors in society that have become increasingly shameful and tolerated among a growing number of enablers. Key features include a combination of academic analyses that draw on numerous and specific examples of the diversity of darkness that encompasses the world along with a balanced practical, everyday-life approach to the study of the socio-political world we live in through the use of contemporary culture references and featured popular culture boxes. Social scientists, social thinkers and the general audience alike will be intrigued by the diversity of topics covered, including anti-civil rights movements; the rise of supremacist groups; hate crimes; mass shootings and active shootings; terrorism, war and genocide; an increase in shameful behaviors and attempts to shame others; and attacks on science, reason and rationality. We should realize that humanity has the intellect to accomplish great feats but heed the growing culture of shamelessness, irrationality and the diversity of darkness.
Angel Whitewolf
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Author : Francisco Toledo Rosenfield
language : en
Publisher: Palibrio
Release Date : 2012-08-15
Angel Whitewolf written by Francisco Toledo Rosenfield and has been published by Palibrio this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-15 with Fiction categories.
Have you ever been sick of everything? Have you ever felt a deep void that you cant fill with anything? Have you noticed that your nature guides you to act one way, but if you dare to follow it, you will be severely judged? Have you felt that you dont fit in completely; that there is something that you maybe still have to find and that it would make sense of everything? Have you experienced fear? Have you felt guilt? Would you like to stop feeling them forever? Are you tired of crying, of suffering and enduring pain, and even so there are still cynics who tell you that this is the road to eternal happiness? And if all the answers were always with you? And if you were always right? And if your unlimited potential was always there, and now its ready to burst forth and show the world that the truth was always with you and not with everyone else? Angel Whitewolf, the dark enlightened one, has awakened, and he is here to show you, if you wish, that the greatest power imaginable belongs to you and to use it, you have only to reclaim it through being yourself. Its only fair that things finally be done your way
Discourses Of Globalisation Human Rights And Sports
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Author : Joseph Zajda
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-08-21
Discourses Of Globalisation Human Rights And Sports written by Joseph Zajda and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-21 with Education categories.
This book discusses major discourses of performing sports within human rights. Research findings data demonstrate that sports is an inequitable field today that has the potential to be a social change agent. There is more discussion about rights violations and what the fields of sports can do to be more rights-respecting, but the discussions are at a surface, rather than analytic level for most sports organizations. In sports, culture and human rights, as an emerging field, it is important to develop well crafter theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical body of knowledge. There is an academic discipline of sport that showcases its interdisciplinary nature. Linking sport to the field of human rights will require theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical evolution in this new discipline. There are both organizational, environmental and individual factors associated within the nexus of sports, athletes and human rights. This book links together sports and human rights in a systematic and analytical way. It contains chapters that discuss human rights policies in performing sports, from both organizational and interpersonal perspectives. The book focuses on the benefits of sports and the human rights and safety challenges within the operations of sports organizations and their impact on individual players.
True Enlightenment
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Author : Lee Maddaford
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2012-12-28
True Enlightenment written by Lee Maddaford and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-28 with Fiction categories.
The National Guidance Front have all the power, and the senate have none. Follow Psi and Gabriel as they unearth the secrets of humantiy and in the process liberate themselves, and through this, every other being who is willing to listen...
Advancing In Enlightenment
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Author : Gail M. Knox
language : en
Publisher: Balboa Press
Release Date : 2017-09-11
Advancing In Enlightenment written by Gail M. Knox and has been published by Balboa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-11 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Advancing in Enlightenment contains forty-four years of metaphysical study of the most profound channeled teachings from five of Americas teachers with the highest integrity. With seven simple chapters, this book combines the wisdom of the ages to master the physical reality that surrounds you to personally improve your life. Spiritual knowledge allows one to manifest the life of ones dreams in balance with inner peace while projecting that peaceful state out to the rest of world.
Cruel Delight
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Author : James A Steintrager
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2004-01-29
Cruel Delight written by James A Steintrager and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-29 with Philosophy categories.
"An important contribution to studies of eighteenth-century culture and to literary history and theory and for those with an interest in horror, sentimentality, the invention of the modern individual, and ethics of 'the human.'" -Daniel Cottom, David A. Burr Chair of Letters, University of Oklahoma Cruel Delight: Enlightenment Culture and the Inhuman investigates the fascination with joyful malice in eighteenth-century Europe and how this obsession helped inform the very meaning of humanity. Steintrager reveals how the understanding of cruelty moved from an inexplicable, apparently paradoxical "inhuman" pleasure in the misfortune of others to an eminently human trait stemming from will and freedom. His study ranges from ethical philosophy and its elaboration of moral monstrosity as the negation of sentimental benevolence, to depictions of cruelty-of children mistreating animals, scientists engaged in vivisection, and the painful procedures of early surgery-in works such as William Hogarth's "The Four Stages of Cruelty," to the conflict between humane sympathy and radical liberty illustrated by the writings of the Marquis de Sade. In each instance, the wish to deny a place for cruelty in an enlightened world reveals a darker side: a deep investment in depravity, a need to reenact brutality in the name of combating it, and, ultimately, an erotic attachment to suffering.
Fatal Autonomy
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Author : William Jewett
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-15
Fatal Autonomy written by William Jewett and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-15 with Drama categories.
'Fatal Autonomy is a subtle, gracefully written, and politically astute reading of selected plays by the canonical Romantic poets. Jewett offers the most original and carefully circumscribed formulations to date of the interaction between language and politics as it is depicted in Romantic drama.'—Julie Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara Describing an enduring moral puzzle and explaining how it helped to shape a key moment in the history of poetic drama, Fatal Autonomy represents Romanticism as a reckoning with the costs of individual agency. No moral calculus can ever fully determine the relation of events to an individual's actions and failures to act, William Jewett argues; that is why the stubborn belief in such a relationship gives rise to tragedy. Jewett maintains that tragic drama forces its readers and viewers to confront the ways in which the use of language grants agency. The Romantic poets saw a moral challenge in that confrontation and followed its generic implications toward a new kind of poetry. Fatal Autonomy thus looks to Romantic drama to explain how Romantic poetry came to hold a permanent grip on conceptions of moral life. Tracing the source of major strains in British Romanticism to a politically charged body of dramatic poems, Jewett focuses on two historical moments: 1794-97, which he describes as the political turning point in the careers of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and 1819-22, the years in which he believes Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron wrote their best poetry.