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NY Times: Are There Secular Reasons?

“It is not, Smith tells us, that secular reason can’t do the job (of identifying ultimate meanings and values) we need religion to do; it’s worse; secular reason can’t do its own self-assigned job — of describing the world in ways that allow us to move forward in our projects — without importing, but not acknowledging, the very perspectives it pushes away in disdain.” Time you recommend that you read ”The Closing of the Western Mind” again.

02/24/10 • 11:44 AM • Books • History • Politics • Religion • Scholarly • No Comments

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