09-04-2018, 07:39 PM
(08-29-2018, 03:26 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Idealist/Prophet generations are the innovators in thought, philosophical and religious. They can innovate in such things because they are children encouraged to think for themselves. That is not to say that they are great moral thinkers; Trump isn't. They are the reformers and heretics. Howe and Strauss list a large number of intellectual revolutionaries (Luther, Calvin, Knox, Loyola, Zwingli) in the Reformation Generation that broke the intellectual smugness of the late medieval world.As for Prophet/Idealist generations I would make a distinction in terms of the double rhythm. Dionysus prophets tend to excel in the philosophical/religious/moral spheres, and may revolutionize the culture. Apollo prophets may excel in ideology, and invent blue prints for new worldly systems.