Published May 6, 2021 | Version 1.0
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God Stuck in Enlightenment Prejudices

  • 1. Light of Truth, Kochi, Kerala

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This article is critique of the 13th  chapter of on “God” of Yuval Noah Harari’s book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. It betrays the Enlightenment’s closed-world of atheism and “dogmatic” prejudice against even the possibility of faith as an offense to reason. Enlightenment urges to critique everything came from the tradition which is a prejudice. The author believes in scientism with falling back algorithms recognizing mathematical patterns. He is stuck in Enlightenment rationalism estrangement from its own rational sense of life and hostility to the sense of the divine. As Derrida argues secularism is not secular but arises from Judeo-Christian faith and his rationality. Rationality is given. The given gives sign of an absence in the presence. The starry heavens above and the moral law within give thought of the silence which makes wonder at the ineffable other. The phenomenological look is closely related to the aesthetic look and moral look, it is not a look in order to enjoy aesthetically and morally but to discover and assume an aspect of the sublime and giving language to divine

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