The intellectual history of the West can be understood as a braid formed by two traditions: Athens (representing liberated rationality and human freedom) and Jerusalem (representing reverence, piety, and faith in God), which are foundational to the mythology, orientation toward right and wrong, and metaphysical conceptions characteristic of Western culture.
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“the tradition that comes out of athens and the tradition that comes out of jerusalem the tradition that comes from liberated rationality and human freedom and the tradition that comes from reverence and piety and faith in god these are the sort of the two parts of a braid that intellectual that the intellectual life of the west forms”
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