@Hip said "Prior to the rediscovery of the Greek texts, Europe languished in the dark ages, where there was very little logical or scientific thought, because everyone was steeped in religious ideas and religious teaching. Few thought scientifically at that time, because the methodologies of science and logic in a sense are not "natural" ways of thinking, but have to be taught.
The Greek texts — Aristotle, etc — when they were rediscovered in the Middle Ages re-educated Europe in how to think logically and scientifically. They were like downloading a new piece of software that gave Europe great new capabilities in thought and understanding. Of course initially the Christian hierarchy banned them."
Just to correct some errors here, it is believed that it started in Florence but that is according to western historians especially in the Roman Catholic Church, but the Eastern Orthodox Church which had no dark age, continuing to develop philosophically and scientifically and recorded a different scenario.
The texts were taken from the Hagia Sofia, the central Orthodox Church in Constantinople when it was ransacked by the Crusaders from Venice. The church in the west had been taken over by the Catholic see in Rome and in following the philosophy of Plato, went into what is known as the dark ages, and learning just about ceased.
The RCC were the ones who banned them or tried to. So this great learning came from a part of the church that the west knew and still knows little about.
The Greek texts — Aristotle, etc — when they were rediscovered in the Middle Ages re-educated Europe in how to think logically and scientifically. They were like downloading a new piece of software that gave Europe great new capabilities in thought and understanding. Of course initially the Christian hierarchy banned them."
Just to correct some errors here, it is believed that it started in Florence but that is according to western historians especially in the Roman Catholic Church, but the Eastern Orthodox Church which had no dark age, continuing to develop philosophically and scientifically and recorded a different scenario.
The texts were taken from the Hagia Sofia, the central Orthodox Church in Constantinople when it was ransacked by the Crusaders from Venice. The church in the west had been taken over by the Catholic see in Rome and in following the philosophy of Plato, went into what is known as the dark ages, and learning just about ceased.
The RCC were the ones who banned them or tried to. So this great learning came from a part of the church that the west knew and still knows little about.
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