Ancestors of the Second Renaissance: key influences and ideas
Summary
Who are our ancestors? What are the main intellectual (or spiritual or other) traditions that are relevant to the Second Renaissance?
Some questions:
- Who are the key leading figures and their most important contributions?
- What ideas / thinkers / traditions have they been in turn influenced by? (history / genealogy of ideas)
- Who are their allies?
- What’s their “tone”? (e.g. mythical, storytelling vs. rational/analytical thinking…?)
Leading Figures
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