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[…] literature they choose to read. In classical literature, writers often speak of the seat of virtue in human beings as the “heart.” Classical philosophy encourages us to think of virtue as achievable through rational […]
[…] for its origin. It must come from the medieval insistence on the rationality of God.” Faith in human progress and the rationality of God sustained scientists such as Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton. Even […]
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