About Religious Reason / On Wars over Liberty vs. Equality / On the Self-Respect of Democracy

Philosophy and Culture 31 (6):143-162 (2004)
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Abstract

The twentieth century is the century of reason over religion, but this proved a rational conclusion about religion is a conspiracy-like paradox: a person who does not believe religion has not been rational, but one who believes that religious people have lost their reason. Since the French Revolution, recognized the value of modern civilization, freedom, equality, fraternity. But in the twentieth century, it is the pursuit of liberty and the pursuit of equality between these two values ​​instead of a fraternity war conflict. Twentieth century shows a strong democracy, but also frequently pro-fascist party in a democratic state election. Recently, with the democratically elected dictatorship "strange" people think: no match for the democratic will of its own weight, back does not move their own myth? The twentieth century is an era where reason has outdone religion. But in this paper we prove that the conclusion that reason has made about religion is indeed an intriguing paradox: an unreligious person is someone who hasn't acquired reason, while a religious person has lost his reason. Modern civilization has always upheld liberty, equality, and fraternity as the worldly acknowledged values. But in the twentieth century, the conflicts between the pursuits to liberty and equality led to wars instead of fraternity. The twentieth century witnessed the power of democracy, but from time to time pro-fascist parties won elections in democratic states. Recently, another portent about the despotism of democratic election makes us wonder: Has democracy grown too heavy for itself to carry its own myth?

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