Abstract

This book presents an old-new vision for humanity: not a barbarous world without a God or a universal (i.e., Nietzsche's world), but also not a world in which God or the ultimate meaning of the otherworldly replaces the need to humanize the divine, to bring to the here and now the possibility of perfection, the option of "paradise within". This somewhat Platonic outlook is not to negate God as an ideal, and yet it is not to put God as a utopian ideal, which, as one may gather from this book, is but the opposite projection of what man is not in this world, mainly due to ill-consciousness of the possible. This humanization of the divine and the divinization of the human, not only challenging the traditional, slavish religion; it is also a provocation against "modernity" that brings forth this religious limitations of man in other forms: "liberalism" and its lowering of the political standards; and the spirit as a version of "critical thinking" and its ultimate skepticism.