Determinism, As the Belief That Essay

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Today's world has greatly expanded and the challenges and provocations that humanity faces are great. Starting with political and economical challenges, and continuing with social and informational challenges, these are all more vast and complex than they were during Ancient Greek times. It is because of all these challenges that individuals will sometimes feel the need to resort to a higher power rather than treat everything in a causal, scientific approach based on reason and inquiry. Despite their tremendous impact on the human thought and perception on nature and human nature, Christianity and religious faith in general has also played an important role in actually limiting the influence of Greek thought in our society.
Christianity and free will being brought into this dialogue, it became more and more complicated to accept determinism and its explanations, for example.

Overall, however, one can appreciate the fact that the Greek thought made its way into modern though through the Renaissance school and gradually gained a foothold as the scientific approach became more and more important during the last two centuries rather than faith-based approaches......

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