"First wave": The cultural revolution of Western liberalism from the Renaissance... to hedonism and rationalism

Author: Malintao
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: The Western liberal new cultural movement is divided into two critical, systematic developmental periods and the subsequent critical deconstruction period. This book, with substantial evidence, sorts out the cultural critique and theoretical development from the Renaissance, the Reformation, to empiricism and rationalism philosophy from the complex historical and cultural landscape, elaborating on the development of Western thought and culture during this ideological cycle. Philosophy is believed to have emerged when ancient Greeks pondered the metaphysical questions after "physics." Subsequently, when Socrates said "How should we live is the most important thing" and raised the question "What is justice," philosophy became an ethical issue concerning human values and purposes. However, from the late Roman period to the Middle Ages, when the Christian Church established a theological political domination for over a thousand years, all philosophical questions were reduced to a set of scholastic philosophy that completely negated the meaning and value of human existence in this world, focusing solely on the existence and proof of an infinitely perfect God (deity). Philosophy became the handmaiden of theology. In the 14th to 16th centuries, since the Western liberal new cultural movement, different periods of liberal philosophical thinkers began to criticize culture in the form of cultural philosophy, no longer through religion or under the authority of the ruling class, but appealing to reason to understand the world and explain the ancient cultural tradition of thinking about human life value. Regarding the thinking development of modern liberal philosophy, different representatives of liberal thought in the Western world at various periods have proposed their ideas and theoretical doctrines in their respective philosophical forms.