Western philosophers have tended to dismiss

A) thought articulated in literalist explanations and arguments.
B) nonliteral, nonscientific explanations of life and the universe through myth, heroic legends, and nonmonotheistic religions.
C) ideas that draw on monotheistic religions.
D) ethical reflection.


B

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