On Tuesday, January 28, 2020 at 5:12:31 PM UTC-7, Brent wrote: > > > > 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 >
As Nietzsche wrote in "The Will to Power", "Plato is the great viaduct of corruption." AG -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/aa282166-20b6-4858-9b50-ff3f3ddebcd3%40googlegroups.com.
