Concept

Medievalism

Overview

system of belief and practice inspired by the Middle Ages

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Out of this assertion grew inevitably, with time, the belief that a man’s religion could not be determined for him by authority, but must be left to the free choice of each individual. It was in matters of religion that the battle for liberty began, and it is in matters of religion that it has come nearest to a complete victory.[2]
Bertrand Russell, Why Men Fight
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The identification of the mind with the individual self and of the latter with a private psychic consciousness is comparatively modern. In both the Greek and medieval periods, the rule was to regard the individual as a channel through which a universal and divine intelligence operated. The individual was in no true sense the knower; the knower was the "Reason" which operated through him. The individual interfered at…
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
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The cult of increasing knowledge, of continually reconstructing the world, took the place both of the ancient conception of adequately organizing the world as presented in thought, and of the medieval conception of a systematic formulation on the basis of the statement in church dogma of social values. This modern conception proceeds from the standpoint not of formulating values, but giving society at the moment the…
John Dewey, Creative Intelligence
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Philosophers who discussed Medievalism

Thomas Carlyle

Related ideas

Place in the tradition

Part of Conservatism.

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