All things shining reading the western classics to find meaning in a secular age by hubert dreyfus and sean dorrance kelly opened my eyes i was using the wrong standard to evaluate helens conduct she swooned for paris not as an act of betrayal to menelaus but because she had responded to aphroditess mood eros paris shone in her eyes and those eyes were not beclouded with wayward lust a christian gloss she responded to something stirring within and accessible to all if they . In all things shining reading the western classics to find meaning in a secular age two distinguished philosophers hubert dreyfus and sean dorrance kelly have written an extraordinary ambitious and provocative tour de force that frames one of the central questions of our age how we have passed from the intense and meaningful lives of homers world to the indecision and sadness that too often characterizes modern times this is compelling reading because in examining the . All things shining reading the western classics to find meaning in a secular age by hubert dreyfus and sean dorrance kelly opened my eyes i was using the wrong standard to evaluate helens conduct she swooned for paris not as an act of betrayal to menelaus but because she had responded to aphroditess mood eros paris shone in her eyes and those eyes were not beclouded with wayward lust a christian gloss she responded to something stirring within and accessible to all if they . In all things shining philosophers hubert dreyfus and sean kelly discuss the search for meaning in our secular world while they do a decent job of cataloging earlier belief systems and explaining their current disuse they do a poor job of finding modern alternatives hubert dreyfus was a fairly well known and influential philosopher