On 1/28/2020 8:10 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Aristotle: Reality is what we see.
Plato: what we see might be the shadow of a simpler reality
(mathematical, musical, theological, …).
Science is really born from that important platonic doubt.
Nonsense. Religious mysticism was born from platonic doubt. Science was
already born in the school of Thales of Miletus. Aristotle at least
believed that observation was a source of knowledg; while platonists
depreacted it as illusory shadows of reality. St Agustine made
Platonism Christian and Thomas Aquinas made Aristotleanism Christian,
and those two, with the power of the Church behind them dominated
Western intellectual thought for nine centuries, known as "The Dark
Ages" for a good reason.
Brent
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