In the book, Merton expanded on the idea of St. Bernard as "the last of the fathers," the figure in whom the run of foundational Christian thought, which began with the apostles, came to a conclusion.
The foundational view of democracy was, and is, an idealization.
Much more could be described and explained, but what I have discussed leads us to several major operative categories of traditional Chinese thought, foundational to both Confucianism and Taoism.
This ancient idea that we are all in this together, that none of us succeeds where others fail is foundational to all spiritual thought and the hallmark of a great and lasting civilization.
Returning from a recent trip to China, one can only marvel at the degree to which these aspects of traditional thought remain foundational to how China, and much of East Asia for that matter, understands the world and the place of the individual within it.
It's as if the foundational works on twentieth-century urbanist thought had been collectively authored by United States Steel, General Motors, the Otis Elevator Company and Bell Telephone rather than Le Corbusier or Jane Jacobs.
The PC is foundational in all our thinking.
As Vattimo observes: "Both philosophers find themselves obliged, on the one hand, to take up a critical distance from Western thought insofar as it is foundational; on the other hand, however, they find themselves unable to criticize Western thought in the name of another, and truer, foundation" (Vattimo 1988 [1985], 2).
Online tests are used predominantly to assess the foundational knowledge domain; however, with some creative thought, effort, time, and appropriate tools within and outside the LMS, online tests could be applied to the other twenty-first century learning domains of humanistic knowledge and meta-knowledge as well as to achieve the concept of powerful assessment (Scott, 2016).
Yet European and American history are so strongly marked by efforts to control speech that the persecution of rebellious thought must be considered among the foundational buttresses of these societies.
