Springs of Western Civilization is a comparative exploration of the
Hebraic and classical traditions that form our heritage. In
examining these traditions before they united, James Arieti locates
the catalyst for their bonding in two related circumstances:
adoption by the biblical world of an eclectic melange of Platonism,
Aristotelianism, and Stoicism that, in the centuries on each side
of the Common Era, produced consensus models both of God and of a
warmhearted individual; and belief that the writings of Plato were
literally true-a belief that arose from failing to understand his
playful, metaphorical techniques of composition. Among the many
effects of the mingling of biblical and philosophical values was a
re-focusing of literature from the heroes of epic to the
compassionate characters we recognize as Menschen.
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