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5 pages in length. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of Carl Becker's (2003) argument pertaining to eighteenth-century philosophers and their misguided understanding of their role in perpetuating medieval philosophies rather than those that reflected modern thought. Main points include examining how philosophes supported the very same beliefs as the Christians they toiled to have discredited for their convictions, providing evidentiary support for the argument's validity by citing numerous instances where this interpretive discrepancy is demonstrated during the Enlightenment, the reinforcement his evidence provides the argument, as well as the influences that guided his line of reasoning. No additional sources cited.
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rather than those that reflected modern thought. Main points include examining how philosophes supported the very same beliefs as the Christians they toiled to have discredited for their convictions,
providing evidentiary support for the arguments validity by citing numerous instances where this interpretive discrepancy is demonstrated during the Enlightenment, the reinforcement his evidence provides the argument, as well as
the influences that guided his line of reasoning. II. MAIN BODY A. ARGUMENT Beckers (2003) primary argument claims an opposing position from
the standard, more popular belief of how philosophers were more modern than medieval. To Becker (2003), the fact that Christian philosophy was an instrumental component of the philosophers established
them as far more medieval than modern. Cloaked within a construct of "preconceptions of medieval Christian thought" (Becker, 2003, p. 29), the author argues how the philosophers may have
espoused to being modern and progressive in their interpretation and demonstration of conjecture, however, they did not - or perhaps could not - realize the extent to which medieval Christian
bias was inextricable infused with "modern" thought. Becker (2003) claims the system of belief embraced by Christianity was based upon a vast compilation
of both positive and negative influences acquired from the short-sightedness of power, greed and prejudice; rolled together, they produced what the author believes to be an oft-inaccurate portrait of reality.
Philosophers then put a "spin" on these beliefs that would ultimately make them appear to be worthy of support merely because they were the credible sources who promoted the
validity. In essence, philosophers reconstructed an idea they either knowingly or unwittingly shared with medieval Christian belief, reapplied it with a truth-seeking attitude that defied anyone who embraced "modern"
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