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By examining selected works by Stephen Gaukroger, Alfred North Whitehead, Lynn White, Jr., Benjamin Farrington, and Paul Gans, the author discusses the formation of Western culture and the intellectual tools and the social conditions that contributed (and still contribute) to its being. He concludes that a metaphysics and a realistic epistemology—based on an ancient Greek confidence in the human intellect, in its ability to reason to truths that acknowledge the immaterial character of human intellection—is required for the West to retain its identity and develop its own culture.
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751-758
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2019-08-20
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- The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., USA
References
- Dougherty, Jude P. Wretched Aristotle: Using the Past to Rescue the Future. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2009.
- Farrington, Benjamin. Greek Science: Its Meaning for Us (Thales to Aristotle). Penguin Books, 1944.
- Gans Paul. “The Medieval Horse Harness: Revolution or Evolution?” In Villard’s Legacy, edited by Marie Thérèse Zenner, 175–187. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.
- Gaukroger, Stephen. The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1210–1685. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006.
- Kitchen, John. “Bernard of Clairvaux’s De gradibus humilitatis et superbiae and the Postmodern Revisioning of Moral Philosophy.” In Virtue and Ethics in the Twelfth Century, edited by István Bejczy and Richard Newhauser, 95–117. Leiden: Brill, 2005.
- Lewis, Michael J. “Rebuilding Notre Dame: Not so Fast.” Wall Street Journal, May 2, 2019. Available online at: https://www.wsj.com/articles/rebuilding-notre-dame-not-so-fast-11556744484. Accessed May 15, 2019.
- White, Lynn, Jr. “The Virgin and Dynamo Reconsidered.” The American Scholar 27, no. 2 (1958): 183–194.
- White, Lynn, Jr. Medieval Technology and Social Change. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1962.
- Whitehead, Alfred North. Science and the Modern World. New York: Macmillan, 1925, first edition; New York: The Free Press, 1967.
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