But medieval philosophy was built on unstable ground- an attempt by Plotinus to merge Aristotle and Plato, and then subsequent attempts by others to merge those with Catholicism. It wasn't until Descartes cleared the deck entirely of the resulting scholasticism (a Frankenstein monster, imo) that we were finally able to begin an empirical study of the world again. It was a necessary destruction that allowed for ingenuity and openness in philosophy again.
I don't mean to entirely trash scholasticism, though: I use Occam's razor on a daily basis. -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
