Journal für Philosophie / Anders denken!

The dream of a unified reason has come to an end. The grand promises of the Enlightenment for freedom, equality, and brotherhood have not been fulfilled to this day, just as those of the sciences for objective and ultimate insights have not been realized. The more we believe we know about humanity, the more difficult it becomes for us to understand the forces of nature that give rise to life. The longing for orientation through knowledge increasingly evolves into a driving force for simple and often irrational explanations. Can humanity and the world be understood rationally at all? Is irrationality perhaps a fundamental characteristic of humanity? Are dreams another, equally real form of reality, and is the logic of emotions more appropriate to the phenomenon of human life than that of reason? What does "thinking differently" mean in this context, and how could it be realized?.