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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... idea of four cultures began to surface in my mind many years ago while I was in Rome working on a book about sermons ... ideas on free will and grace . They talked in very different styles . How they spoke was as different as what they ...
... idea that the church as an in- stitution could , and under certain circumstances should , be redone to a degree and in a way that profoundly defied the status quo and received wisdom . From the past they reinvented , Gregory and his ...
... ideas and philosophical systems of Plato and Aristotle but in a certain style of learning and discoursing that they launched and that received its most rigorous , reflective , and aggressive form in the universities of the Middle Ages ...
... ideas of Aristotle and other ancient thinkers that for centuries provided much of the content of academic discourse . But the culture the medieval Scholastics created out of them has only become more normative . This has of course not ...
... was she very original in the philo- sophical positions she took . . . . She expanded on existing ideas and applied them to current issues . . . . Despite her pragmatism , she lived all her life according to a set of Athens and Jerusalem 17.