Philosophy 38

Question 0

What was about to “assert itself?”

Answer 0

The thousand year maturation of the West was about to assert itself in a series of enormous cultural convulsions that would give birth to the modern world

Question 1

What does the “limits of the matrix” refer to?

Answer 1

Society was developing on every front and culture could no longer be contained by the old structures

Question 2

What will the author now examine?

Answer 2

The complexly intermingled cultural epochs known as the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Scientific Revoltuion

Question 3

Where does the phenomenon of the Renaissance lay?

Answer 3

In the sheer diversity of its expressions and their unprecedented quality

Question 4

What is it that man no longer was?

Answer 4

Inconsequential relative to God, the Church, or nature

Question 5

What four technical inventions would play a pivotal role in the new era?

Answer 5

The magnetic compass, gunpowder, the mechanical clock, and the printing press