[lit-ideas] Re: The 'Near-Eastern' influences on the Greek philosophy, scienc...
- From: Scribe1865@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 09:48:28 EDT
In a message dated 4/9/2004 5:57:51 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx writes:
http://www.askwhy.co.uk/judaism/GreekIndex.html
Contains this account from Burnett's book:
Aristotle calls the early philosophers "Investigators of Nature," declaring
their scientific interests as including physics, mathematics, astronomy and
physiology. They did not cease to speak of the gods of Homer, but rejected
supernatural explanations based on the mythology as explaining nothing. They
sought
to show that the world was essentially rational. In this they were vastly
superior in intellect to millions of subsequent Christians, Jews and Muslims,
though they lived almost 3000 years ago.
<SNIP>
Philosophy among the Greeks is believed to have begun in the Ionian city of
Miletus, the richest and most powerful Greek city on the coast of Asia Minor.
. . . . Its people travelled, giving them an awareness of conflicting ideas,
which encouraged thinking. And among the aristocrats of Miletus was an
independence of thought that was a part of an effort toward individual
excellence
that had been encouraged as justification for their privileges.
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