Culture and knowledge of reality: restoring the liberal and fine arts
This essay addresses the problem of the decline of interest in the Liberal and Fine Arts, and the humanities, East and West, accompanied by a reductionist understanding of reality and life. That reductionism results in a trivialization and brutalization of culture. The essay considers three prominen...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2016]
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Journal of interdisciplinary studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 28, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 107-134 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture CF Christianity and Science KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NBE Anthropology |
| Summary: | This essay addresses the problem of the decline of interest in the Liberal and Fine Arts, and the humanities, East and West, accompanied by a reductionist understanding of reality and life. That reductionism results in a trivialization and brutalization of culture. The essay considers three prominent modes of understanding: Scientism, Relationalism, and Wisdom-seeking. A scientistic relationalism is anti-intellectual and anti-cultural. In contrast, a Wisdom-seeking relationalism affirms human dignity, and is grounded in a qualitative ontology necessary to an intellectual and moral life. The historical turning-point in the West in which the intellectual and practical pursuit of Wisdom was replaced by a scientistic relationalism is personified by the contrasts between St. Anselm of Canterbury and Peter Abelard. |
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| ISSN: | 0890-0132 |
| Reference: | Kritik in "Pontynen on knowledge and truth (2016)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of interdisciplinary studies
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