0072 Redpath tells a tale in order to magnify Aquinas’s note of caution.  Small errors at the start of an enterprise produce significant errors at the end. 

Redpath’s tale concerns the Italian Renaissance, which neglects logic at its beginning, eventually falling into subjugation to the radically incomplete logic of the empirical sciences.

There is a historical sequence.  Renaissance innovators are followed by mechanical philosophers and mechanical philosophers are followed by the thinkers of the Western Enlightenment.

An alternate option, concocted here, says, “The Western Enlightenment may well be the rebirth of the Renaissance, under the conditions of its subjugation to the empirical sciences.”

0073 Here is a diagram of what the Enlightenment judgment can be.

Oh, it looks the same as the Renaissance judgment.

0074 So, what does that suggest?

Does the Enlightenment, retaining the Renaissance’s neglect of logic, cover up the radically incomplete logic of the empirical sciences, so that the normal contexts of the liberal arts₃ and scientific disciplinary languages₃ together exclude the richness of natural reason₃, available in scholastic arguments, Aristotelian causalities, mathematical learning and abstractions?

Ah, such is the Age of Ideas.

0075 Perhaps unwittingly, Redpath unveils the two contenders facing the Homeschooling Renaissance.  One disregards logic and proposes occult beings bursting with final and formal causalities.  The other channels logic into mathematics and mechanics and says that material and instrumental causalities explain all things.

No wonder Redpath calls for a return to “uncommon” common sense.

I call the alternative the Age of Triadic Relations.