Without Aristotle, Plato etc, there wouldn't be Christianity. This country rabbi Jesus was standing on shoulders of giants, merely preaching Greek Philosophy
I am surprised of lack mention of muslim scholars like Avicena, Albironi, Averos and AlKalam philosophers, who preserved Greek knowledge from the library of Alexandria and introduced it to Europe via Spain. As though philosophy never existed outside Europe, even though, to my knowledge, most presocratic philosophers born in what is now known as Turkey. Huge blind spot. German idealism influenced heavily by Jewish knowledge arrived from Andulica spain prior and after the Catholic inquisition. That's because the author of objectivism doesn't acknowledge eastern philosophers for some reason. Not much of objectivism about the history of knowledge.
@@poetryflynn3712 sad to accept such distorted reality. I just read about St.Augustin view about scientific knowledge, and it's shocking. He regarded scientific knowledge as unnecessary and condemned it, and so did Tertullian 150 years earlier. That's why the library of Alexandria suffered repeated fires while Alexandria controlled by Christian churches . they even killed and dismantled the body of the only known female philosopher i knew of in the fifth century, her name is Hypathia, because she was not Christian. Who do they think translated and preserved Greek knowledge and elaborated on them. I am not a religious person but if history deliberately distorted, then anything can be distorted.
@@poetryflynn3712 the Greek knowledge was collected ,then translated by the rulers of Baghdad especially during 8th and 9th centuries. They built a library called the house of wisdom. They collected manuscripts from alexandria to costantinople and from persia to India. Its known as ( the period of translation movement) . They allocated translators to work on them for decades. They did an excellent job in preserving Greek, Indian and Persian knowledge. Unfortunately, many of that lost when the moguls destroyed Baghdad in 13th century , they threw all books into the river. Also million book burnt during the Catholic inquisition in andalucia Spain. I am not sure if you can find any old Greek books written in old Greek language. I believe the Catholic deliberately hidden Islamic philosophers. It used to be a crime to preserve any Arabic books. They used to search houses and confiscate books and burn them in public. The church used to be antiscience. I believe they killed tens of thousands of European intellectuals and science seeking. It used to be a crime to study anything but theology. I just think that people who did such marvellous job should be celebrated and their names should be placed on academic places. It's nothing to do with religion, as most if not all of them accused of herasey
@@poetryflynn3712 I think the move towards one religion or unity of deity and a centralised government hasn't solved much of the problems . The Chinese contributed immensely to knowledge and most of middle East cultures were a beneficiary of trading with china and India. I personally think islam was an outcome of the trade with the far East. Muhammad was a merchant who transported goods between Yemen and the lavant. The Arab tribes lost the trade when the roman controlled the area and started using ships. The Arab tribes moved north to control routes of the trade with far east , then became rich and knowledgeable of the area. Knowledge became a necessity to them, to communicate with others, and know the routes of trade to control it. also they learnt from exposure via trade and exchange of ideas through business. When Europe discovered how to build ships, split up to competing kingdoms and John Calvin liberated lending money and broke with Catholic Church teaching that lending money was a sin, banks started to appear in Holland and UK after Italian cities like Venice and Florence and the rest is history. Muslims lost everything because they prohibited lending money legally until 20th century when it was too late. Unfortunately Clinton was right when he said its the economy.......?. Banks and money contributed to our present and not philosophy or religion or renaissance or enlightenment or democracy.... I think its the inventions of banks that changed the world... did you know that aristotle and most ancient philosophers and all religions prohibited lending money....?.
Great to see Dr. Piekoff's words and each letter thereof hammered out on the screen - thank you!
10:30 nominalism
18:58 Arselum argument for god(ontological argument)
23:00 monk gaunilo criticism
25:10 emergence of aristotle
33:20 question period
Excellent stuff.
@4:20 ...yet at1215 AD - Magna Carta!
Without Aristotle, Plato etc, there wouldn't be Christianity. This country rabbi Jesus was standing on shoulders of giants, merely preaching Greek Philosophy
The sound is truly shitty.
Its from 1970.
I am surprised of lack mention of muslim scholars like Avicena, Albironi, Averos and AlKalam philosophers, who preserved Greek knowledge from the library of Alexandria and introduced it to Europe via Spain. As though philosophy never existed outside Europe, even though, to my knowledge, most presocratic philosophers born in what is now known as Turkey. Huge blind spot. German idealism influenced heavily by Jewish knowledge arrived from Andulica spain prior and after the Catholic inquisition. That's because the author of objectivism doesn't acknowledge eastern philosophers for some reason. Not much of objectivism about the history of knowledge.
Agreed, not to mention the influence of ancient Indian Sages on ancient Greek thinkers.
@@jackmclaren768 Thales went to an Egyptian temple to learn.
@@poetryflynn3712 sad to accept such distorted reality. I just read about St.Augustin view about scientific knowledge, and it's shocking. He regarded scientific knowledge as unnecessary and condemned it, and so did Tertullian 150 years earlier. That's why the library of Alexandria suffered repeated fires while Alexandria controlled by Christian churches . they even killed and dismantled the body of the only known female philosopher i knew of in the fifth century, her name is Hypathia, because she was not Christian. Who do they think translated and preserved Greek knowledge and elaborated on them.
I am not a religious person but if history deliberately distorted, then anything can be distorted.
@@poetryflynn3712 the Greek knowledge was collected ,then translated by the rulers of Baghdad especially during 8th and 9th centuries. They built a library called the house of wisdom. They collected manuscripts from alexandria to costantinople and from persia to India. Its known as ( the period of translation movement) . They allocated translators to work on them for decades. They did an excellent job in preserving Greek, Indian and Persian knowledge. Unfortunately, many of that lost when the moguls destroyed Baghdad in 13th century , they threw all books into the river. Also million book burnt during the Catholic inquisition in andalucia Spain.
I am not sure if you can find any old Greek books written in old Greek language.
I believe the Catholic deliberately hidden Islamic philosophers. It used to be a crime to preserve any Arabic books. They used to search houses and confiscate books and burn them in public. The church used to be antiscience. I believe they killed tens of thousands of European intellectuals and science seeking. It used to be a crime to study anything but theology.
I just think that people who did such marvellous job should be celebrated and their names should be placed on academic places. It's nothing to do with religion, as most if not all of them accused of herasey
@@poetryflynn3712 I think the move towards one religion or unity of deity and a centralised government hasn't solved much of the problems .
The Chinese contributed immensely to knowledge and most of middle East cultures were a beneficiary of trading with china and India.
I personally think islam was an outcome of the trade with the far East. Muhammad was a merchant who transported goods between Yemen and the lavant. The Arab tribes lost the trade when the roman controlled the area and started using ships. The Arab tribes moved north to control routes of the trade with far east , then became rich and knowledgeable of the area. Knowledge became a necessity to them, to communicate with others, and know the routes of trade to control it. also they learnt from exposure via trade and exchange of ideas through business. When Europe discovered how to build ships, split up to competing kingdoms and John Calvin liberated lending money and broke with Catholic Church teaching that lending money was a sin, banks started to appear in Holland and UK after Italian cities like Venice and Florence and the rest is history. Muslims lost everything because they prohibited lending money legally until 20th century when it was too late. Unfortunately Clinton was right when he said its the economy.......?.
Banks and money contributed to our present and not philosophy or religion or renaissance or enlightenment or democracy....
I think its the inventions of banks that changed the world...
did you know that aristotle and most ancient philosophers and all religions prohibited lending money....?.