Comments on: How an Engineering Culture Launched Modernity

By: Everyone knows that Presbyterians, not Lutherans, are the hard-working Protestants | The League of Ordinary Gentlemen

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:43:18 +0000

[...] from claims about the innate superiority of Anglo-Saxon nations to contemporary theories about Europe’s unique “engineering culture,” but I think the fundamental problem here is mistaking a symptom of social change or some factor [...]

By: Links of concern « A Corner of Tenth-Century Europe

Links of concern « A Corner of Tenth-Century Europe — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:43:57 +0000

[...] is it just me or has this guy’s quite compelling argument about what constitutes modernity just unhinged a good chunk of our commnest arguments about the so-called `relevance’ of the [...]

By: Modernity, Christianity and Islam | The League of Ordinary Gentlemen

Modernity, Christianity and Islam | The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:59:58 +0000

[...] of modernity – did the West develop because of spontaneous social change, secularism, the rise of “engineering culture,” or competition between European states? I’m inclined to agree with Stephen Davies insofar as [...]

By: Positive Liberty » More Shameless Self-Promotion

Positive Liberty » More Shameless Self-Promotion — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:10:50 +0000

[...] is followed by Jack Goldstone, whose essay is titled “How an Engineering Culture Launched Modernity.” I recall that as a first-year grad student, reading Goldstone’s Revolution and [...]