We Are So Messed Up
Western Civilization: The whole is comprised of two dominant worldviews/traditions.
Greek Tradition: detached, disembodied, timeless, universal, reflective, critical, rational
Hebrew Tradition: involved, embodied, historical, local, committed to specificity
If anyone can figure out how to lead a civilization anywhere when it is rooted in this soup my hat is off to them!
Tags: philosophy, western, civilization, greek, hebrew, plato, jesus, culture
September 29th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
i would hardly believe that all worldviews are either one or the other of these, but rather, if these worldviews do encompass all predispositions, each worldview in this modern soup is more or less a mixture of different peices of each.