The World Turned Upside Down

People believe many of the things they believed in antiquity, but the frame which gives them meaning has shifted.The modern approach to understanding is to deal in discrete and measurable entities, and their combinations. In the ancient world, they were more interested in understanding the part in relation to the whole. How this reversal came about is complex, and the process is not yet complete. The ancient world view is essentially a teleological perspective, in which the final cause of eve...