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Originally Posted by demonsbane
I would add to that that the modernity -the rupture with the traditional world-views- started in the Classical times, was stopped or "half corrected" during part of the Middle Ages, then resurged again in the Renaissance and has prevailed until today, affecting later to the whole planet, for good and for bad. Of course, in very general lines.
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I would agree, modulo changing the word "corrected" to "suppressed" or "subverted." But then, I think the Aristotelian revolution was essentially positive, despite incidental bits of garbage that got caught up with it.
Bill Stoddard