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We sure have different perspectives. Having read Eckhart as well as Kant, I strongly prefer Kant's take on enlightenment. I feel Kant's perspective actually sh
by awakeasleep 16y ago
We sure have different perspectives.
Having read Eckhart as well as Kant, I strongly prefer Kant's take on enlightenment. I feel Kant's perspective actually shines some light on the topic in a way which can benefit the reader's life- not in terms of moving further down a prescribed spiritual path, but instead urging people to further adapt to and interact with the world.
I really feel like we might see things in completely opposite directions. Kant's thought here, and the whole western tradition of enlightenment, urges people to follow their own reason rather than the reasoning of a church or religion, be it Buddhist or Christian.
Am I confused about two applications of the term Enlightenment or do you think we actually disagree?
- crazydiamond 16y agoThe alternative to following one's reason is not following someone else's doctrine or religion. We can, for example, investigate our conditioning and concepts through questioning. We may find that our reasoning is itself based on concepts that are relative, or believed due to social conditioning. Questioning brings about a silence, that silence in time reveals that even things such as the "I" or person was a concept. Now that's a huge discovery and is not specific to some church or belief.