Chapter 7, Chapters 96 - 99 Summary

Chapter 96: This chapter is also dedicated to the superman of letters but it is very different. Here, Arnheim looks at the businessman. What is it that makes this man successful? The author brings up the Medieval relationship between science and the Christian, especially Catholic Church. The Church was so dominant that people such as philosophers had to watch it all the time in order to secure or to maintain funding for their projects and to avoid being attacked by the Church. Arnheim reports on the importance of teamwork. An excellent rider in right relation with a wonderful mount will go far, but if the two are in conflict then their progress will suffer terribly and it would be best if they would resolve this issue. Goethe is briefly discussed as having emerged as one of the greats of the...