Seeing the World Aright: “Out With the Old Mindset In With the New”
http://academiachurch.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/seeing-the-world-aright-out-with-the-old-mindset-in-with-the-new/ March 24, 2014 by Lawrence E. Garcia There have been many great (and many not so great ones, but impactful nevertheless) human minds throughout history. And no doubt, they all viewed the world they occupied very differently. In fact, when you study one of them long enough, you can, in a sense, imagine how they might view a current situation or problem; and perhaps, with much probability imagine how they might attempt to solve it. We often see this, for example, in modern political discourse when our constitutional founders are evoked in order to hypothetically engage current issues. We hear things like, ‘ James Madison ,’ or ‘George Washington would think this of this situation and he might say this about it and give this answer’ (I’m being intentionally vague here). Another example is musicologist Barry Cooper, a scholar of all things Beethoven. As everyo...