the goal is to identify the nature of a peculiarly European mind-set that engendered the unprecedented phenomenon the world has experienced in the last few hundred years: one that produced devastating genocides and exploitation as well as the spectacular technological achievements that have transformed the lives of virtually everyone on the planet. According to this hypothesis, that mind-set is to be found in the dualistic structure of thought that originated in ancient Greece and later became synthesized into the systematic monotheism of Christianity. It is this underlying dualism that led
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