The Sociopolitical Context of Philosophical Beliefs: A Transhistorical Causal Analysis*
作者:
Dean Keith Simonton,
期刊:
Social Forces
(OUP Available online 1976)
卷期:
Volume 54,
issue 3
页码: 513-523
ISSN:0037-7732
年代: 1976
DOI:10.1093/sf/54.3.513
出版商: The University of North Carolina Press
数据来源: OUP
摘要:
This paper applies a quasi-experimental design to the problem of the causal relation between intellectual and political movements. A sample of 122 consecutive “generations” (or 20-year periods) was drawn from European history (540 B.C. to 1900 A.D.). A cross-lagged correlation analysis indicated the following intergenerational influences: (1) political fragmentation has a positive impact on the emergence of empiricism, skepticism-criticism-fideism, materialism, temporalism, nominalism, singularism, and the ethics of happiness; (2) war has a negative impact on the appearance of most of these just mentioned beliefs; (3) skepticism-criticism-fideism and perhaps materialism have a positive influence on the appearance of war; and (4) civil disturbances tend to polarize beliefs on all major philosophical issues.
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