By Scott London
London: You've written about the importance of a core of people in a society being historically informed. Why is that so important?
Tarnas: In order to understand our moment in history and where we can go in the future, we have to know what brought us here. In order to be strategically intelligent, we need to be able to comprehend the sources of our world. Our world is shaped by our worldview. How we approach reality is defined by the kinds of assumptions we have about that reality, and that, in turn, shapes reality and feeds it back to us. The subject and the object are deeply implicated in each other.
In this sense, it's very important for us to understand the sources of our worldview and therefore the whole history of our philosophies, our sciences, our religions that have led us to this point and shaped the worldview that we now find ourselves in.
London: I take it this was your rationale for writing The Passion of the Western Mind?
Tarnas: Yes, I felt it was really important to write a work that would, in basically one volume, attempt to coherently describe the great evolution of the Western worldview, starting with the ancient Greeks and Hebrews and going right up through the classical period, the medieval period, the Renaissance, the scientific revolution, modernity, and now our own postmodern era where everything is in such flux.
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