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What philosopher influenced western world religion? |
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western in modern terms is shaped by ideas of the 1900s and 1800's,
originating mainly in Europe. What we think of as "Western" thought
today is defined as roman-greco and christian-judeo culture, the renaissance, the enlightenment and colonialism. As a consequence the term Western thought
is at times unhelpful and vague, since it can define two separate
(although related) sets of traditions and values: Firstly, the
Christian (or Western Christian) moral tradition and religious values;
Secondly, secular values, often with a rationalist anti-clerical
tradition. Less acknowledged but equally as important was the influence
of the German
cultures whose people overran Western Europe beginning in the fifth
century AD and effectively became the rulers of Western Europe into the
modern age, first in the form of the Goths and the Vandals and later in
the form of the Franks who unified the West.
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