Enlightenment faith in human creative capacities

Faith And Enlightenment : A Response To James Doull

In his essay, "Faith and Enlightenment," James Doull makes a case for the view that the faith of the Protestant Reformation and the "pure insight" of Enlightenment are but "two opposed forms of the same totality." Despite the often deadly hostility of Enlightenment to traditional religious belief, the form of consciousness which arose alternately with Lutheranism in the sixteenth century and wi...

Technological Enlightenment in Russia

Peter the Great brought technological enlightenment to Russia. In his lifetime, two special schools for training engineers were established, the Engineering School in 1700, and the Mathematical-Navigation School in 1701. Peter the Great introduced engineering training into other institutions as well, not only into the Naval Academy, but also regimental schools and even religious colleges. (See ...

The Range of Human Capacities

I find this to be a stimulating, if not an important piece of work, and propose to give it a fairly exhaustive review. It is concerned, as the title states, with the range of human capacities. " When we compare the mathematical ability of an Einstein, or the scientific intuition of a Pasteur or the poetic gifts of a Shakespeare, with the correlative abilities of average men, let alone those of ...

Childhood, identity and human science in the Enlightenment.

Faith healing and faith in healing.

Sarkar and Seshadri have presented an interesting paper in this issue on the ethical approach that a physician should take when faced with requests for faith healing (1). The paper describes four approaches that the physician can take. These are rejecting the request, keeping oneself detached from the issue, endorsing the request and trying to understand the practices concerned so as to make a ...