Western Culture Journey: From Apollo to Apollo

Author: Liu Wenrong
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: Western culture has experienced five eras: the intuitive era of ancient times, the faith era of the Middle Ages, the era of inquiry during the Renaissance, the creative era from the 17th to the 19th centuries, and the reflective era of the 20th century. Ancient Greek and Roman culture and medieval Christian culture are the two major sources of Western culture. The conflict and integration of these two formed the culture of the Renaissance. After about two hundred years of evolution, it eventually gave rise to a truly mature Western mainstream culture, characterized by "secular idealism," which is the modern Western culture. This book takes this as the thread, with religion, philosophy, art, and science as the four major cultural dimensions as the warp, and outlines the origins and development of Western culture in the simplest way possible.