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The Grandest Narrative (I. The Rise)
Almost no one (besides the intellectualized children of modernity, that is) has believed that the world just happened. But the idea that we could understand, using our minds, how it came about, started (so far as we can determine) with … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Worldview, Philosophy, Political Economy, Political Philosophy, Religion, Uncategorized
Tagged apologetics, Aquinas, Christendom, Christianity, Creation, God, humans as problem solvers, intelligibility of the universe, narrative, Philosophy, Religion, rise of the West, technology, Western civilization, worldviews
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Modernity
Many philosophers and other authors use the term modernity for the state of civilization to which the later Enlightenment and the industrial revolution gave rise. The Enlightenment was fundamentally about the rise and presumed applicability of reason and empirical methods … Continue reading
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Tagged absurdism, Albert Camus, alienation, Auguste Comte, Beat Generation, Christianity, Dadaism, disco and philosophy, Friedrich Nietzsche, history, liberal democracy, Modernity, myth of progress, nihilism, Philosophy, politics, popular music, punk rock and philosophy, science, scientific philosophy, Sigmund Freud, technology, William James
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