Chirag Patel
Humanist History Before Europe (Fascinating Topics, Strange Experiences and Unusual Advice, #6)
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What is humanism? For a long time, I thought I knew. I was wrong, though. I thought it was a branch of philosophy that had been born in the renaissance, and become the foundation for the Enlightenment and everything that came after.Looking back, I see that that was horribly Eurocentric. Of course, I learned about it growing up in England, so of course I would be told it was European.The real truth is hugely more sophisticated and ancient. Once I began to realise just how much verified contact between cultures there had been over the millennia, and how much of what I was told was humanism was a remnant of an older belief system, I knew somethi…
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What is humanism? For a long time, I thought I knew. I was wrong, though. I thought it was a branch of philosophy that had been born in the renaissance, and become the foundation for the Enlightenment and everything that came after.Looking back, I see that that was horribly Eurocentric. Of course, I learned about it growing up in England, so of course I would be told it was European.The real truth is hugely more sophisticated and ancient. Once I began to realise just how much verified contact between cultures there had been over the millennia, and how much of what I was told was humanism was a remnant of an older belief system, I knew something closer to the truth.This is the story of a history and tradition as long and complex as any major religion, and far older than most. It has traced a conceptual path around Eurasia, holding onto remnants of each place. Today, part of humanism is the spiritual path trod in India, the ethics born in Confucianist China, and the legal system that came forth in medieval Islam.Secular humanism has hidden much of this history from us. In insisting that humanism is a science-based, post-enlightenment European project, it has left us without the core spiritual and social components that humanism's rich history has left us.This book aims to redress the balance by exploring Humanism's path from China, through India, the Middle East, northern Africa and finally Europe.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-393-94375-4
- EAN: 9781393943754
- Produktnummer: 34384743
- Verlag: Books by Lamplight
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 200 KB
Über den Autor
Historically, Chirag has been both a writer for hire, and one of opportunity. A student of the craft, more than any particular genre or form.Chirag has experience in writing, web design, marketing, journalism, teaching, project management, and various other fields, my writing covers an broad range of well-researched, carefully thought-through content.He once had quite a bohemian vision of writing, but ended up writing news, features, travelogues, business and academic articles, and really rather a lot of web content. There's no writing challenge like finding an interesting and engaging way to describe chamfered steel plates...He also records audiobooks - you can buy them from any major audiobook retailer by searching for Chirag Patel or for Lamplight.Check out lamplight.design for information on audiobooks he's narrated, from poetry and mysticism to detective thrillers and dark fantasy.
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