Philosophy & Religion From Luther to Spinoza to Trump: Why Has Liberalism Unraveled Over the Past Five Hundred Years?
The Reformation was not merely the heroic tale of Luther alone. From the ideas that emerged in an era shaped by the advent of movable-type printing and favorable economic conditions, capitalism, science that does not require God, and liberalism all branched out. Yoshiyuki Kato traces this lineage.Viewed through the lens of five hundred years, both America’s divisions and Japan’s sense of dissonance become visible as structural phenomena.