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EP 172 Brendan Graham Dempsey on Emergentism

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Pre-Modernity and the Modern Worldview

John Vervake would call that reciprocal narrowing, right? You have these processes that cycle in on themselves and you get a downward spiral. In the pre-modern context, everything we would say is religious. Everything was spiritual. But of course, those ideas don't really even exist until you get to modernity and you begin to appreciate that there's a differentiation between them. Charles Taylor wrote a book called The Secular Age which talks about the great disembedding. And so he named some of these phenomena really well, but you can understand it psychologically.

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