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Methodologies of Targeting Neoclassicist Voltaire's Twisted Hermeneutic for Targeting Criminal Christianity
Venter, J.J. (Ponti) (AOSIS, 2015)This article is the third of four written to line up two extremes in the history of methodology: early 20th century Pragmatism and late-Renaissance militarism, filling in the middle period, focusing on Voltaire and the ... -
Methodologies of targeting – renaissance militarism attacking Christianity as 'weakness'
J.J. (Ponti) Venter (AOSIS, 2013)Intellectuals in the post-Medieval West, striving for scholarly emancipation, developed methodologies to target so as to free themselves from the dominant Christian, largely Roman Catholic, intellectual tradition. Machiavelli ... -
Pragmatism attacking Christianity as weakness – methodologies of targeting
Venter, J.J. (Ponti) (AOSIS, 2013)The central argument is that methods are designed with aims in mind, and are determined by one’s worldview and/or ontology and/or philosophical anthropology and/or views of scholarship. It is possible, and here shown by ... -
Pragmatism attacking Christianity as weakness – methodologies of targeting
J.J. (Ponti) Venter (AOSIS, 2013)The central argument is that methods are designed with aims in mind, and are determined by one’s worldview and/or ontology and/or philosophical anthropology and/or views of scholarship. It is possible, and here shown by ... -
Voltaire: natural scientific light against Christian criminality methodologies of targeting
Venter, J.J. (Ponti) (AOSIS/KOERS Society of South Africa, 2015)Western thought, since the Renaissance, shows a repeated development of methods aimed at attacking Christianity, from Machiavelli’s Classicist militarism up to William James’ ‘empty’ Pragmatism. Methods have aims, and aims ...