Four Cultures of the WestHarvard University Press, 2004 M10 15 - 261 pages The workings of Western intelligence in our day--whether in politics or the arts, in the humanities or the church--are as troubling as they are mysterious, leading to the questions: Where are we going? What in the world were we thinking? By exploring the history of four "cultures" so deeply embedded in Western history that we rarely see their instrumental role in politics, religion, education, and the arts, this timely book provides a broad framework for addressing these questions in a fresh way. |
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... human issues and works for the common good of society ( Cicero , Erasmus , and Eleanor Roosevelt ) ; and the culture of art and perform- ance that celebrates the mystery of the human condition ( Phidias , Michelangelo , Balanchine ) ...
... human- ist eloquence provided adornment for Scholastic content . Did not the latter also have form — or style ? Did not the former have content ? It was the style issue , however , that I increasingly saw as critical . These were the ...
... human culture to do with the transcendent claims of Judaism and Christianity ? Nothing at all , was Tertullian's answer . Others both before and after disagreed with him , affirming in ei- ther theory or action that Athens and Jerusalem ...
... human culture " as pointing in the first instance to the Athens of real history . My Athens is a metaphor grounded in real time and place . I thus see it as standing for three areas of ac- complishment in " the glory that was Greece ...
... human is- sues but with speculation about animals and the physical world . Whereas the culture represented by Plato and Aristotle ends up pursuing with special zeal Truth , the culture represented by Isocrates and his followers is more ...