"It was a product of seventeenth-century thinkers who rejected scholasticism in favor of science and religious belief and enthusiasm in favor of a secular world. It was rooted in the philosophy of Descartes and Hobbes and the science of Copernicus and Galileo."
"This opposition to religion in the modern age, however, should not be taken as a proof that at its core modernity is antireligious. It is certainly true that modernity has consistently struggled against certain forms of religious doctrine and practice, including the cult of the saints, teleology, th"
迈克尔·艾伦·吉莱斯皮(Michael Mien Gillespie).杜克大学哲学教授和政治学教授,1981年获芝加哥大学哲学博士学位。主要著作有《现代性的神学起源》(The Theological Origins of Modernity,2008)、《尼采之前的虚无主义》(Nihilism before Nie czsche.1995)、《黑格尔、海德格尔与历史的根据》(Hegel,Heidegger,and the Ground of History,1984)等等。