Enlightenment And Religionary Enlightenment

Enlightenment is a theme of humanities which renovates frequently. With the method of elucidatory and phenomenology, resort to ultimate view, we can probe into the meaning of enlightenment, then find the multi-form of it, such as: rational form, non-rational form, and so on. Though all kinds of the enlightenment are different types of incessant animadversions and subversions, the aim of them is to protect the exclusive individuating nature of human being: dignity and freedom, which is the axes of the enlightening representing the ravelment of logos and sensibility. The process of enlightenment has two tracks: other's enlightenment and self's enlightenment. In the modernization of China, science and democracy became the pronoun of enlightening, on which we should reflect. Once there is an absolutization in any kinds of enlightenment, there is a kind of closing over it. The enlightening is a process in which people always overthrow themselves, and which couldn't be accomplished in a certain times. Where there is a person, there is the enlightenment. The individual in the enlightening is persistently disclosing the cover which the logos gives to sensibility or which sensibility gives to logos, in this bidirectional movement the individual's dignity shall be protected.The religionary enlightenment belongs to non-rational category. Resorting to ultimate view, Tillich's theory about"Ultimate concern"illuminates the importance of the religionary enlightenment to life. Be a"Ultimate concern", religion is actually a universal shape which everyone thinks. The religionary enlightenment is a process of"persistent disclosedness", which is a struggling to human's natural state and could supply the ultimate dimensionality for individual choice in the time lacking groundwork. So this is"The first Reason"for religionary enlightenment's existence forever.