The Disenchantment of the Modern Universe and the Tale of Two Suitors

By Frederick J. Dennehy Issue: Summer 2006, The Enchanted Earth; Issue #44 In the Epilogue to his masterful (and bestselling) The Passion Of The Western Mind, Richard Tarnas acknowledges the Copernican revolution as a “primordial event,” both “world-destroying and world-constituting,” the basis for both the ontological and epistemological revolutions initiated by Descartes and Kant respectively. These revolutions have sharply defined ... Read More ►