On Wednesday, January 29, 2020 at 3:08:50 AM UTC-6, Alan Grayson wrote: > > > > 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 >
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