Hi DM, Bo, All [DM] > > Also enlightenment protestantism is of > > course very important in the revival of free thinking and also gives us > > capitalism and economic individualism which helps democracy and tradition > > bashing just a touch too.
[Bo] > You don't connect it with anything MOQish - > SOM or Intellect - but still most apt. BTW, I don't know much > about Dewey, but I remember Scott Roberts' Owen Barfield who > has a similar notion of some profound shift taking place around > this time that he called "loss of participation". I.e. a previous > Golden (participation) Age being ousted by Science and > Modernity. This is uncannily like ZAMM's SOM displacing Aretê. > Don't you think? ... with the intellectual level's emerging from the > social IMO. Please note the relationship between individualism and the rise of the intellectual level. After the Reformation a person could appeal directly to a caring God, thus freeing him from dependence on a social pattern (the church) to provide for his welfare. Platt Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
