[lit-ideas] Re: islam 'r us
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:23:12 -0400
>>why this disengagement by westerners from recognizing
Islam as a major contributor to what the west has become?
Quick response: preservation is not creation. Preserving
Aristotle is not the same as originating Aristotle.
Further, Mesopotamian sky god cultures are based in the
notion of God or Allah being the source of all knowledge.
All wisdom comes from the Lord, as the Bible says.
Hellenistic culture (and by extension Roman culture) is
based in the notion that an individual can ask the universe
questions (empirical experiment) and the universe will
disclose its secrets without the sky god's mediation by
priests or sacred books.
Remember that the Stoics coined the term "universe." The
Stoics also promoted equality of the sexes and an end to
slavery as early as 300 BCE.
------------------------------------------------------------------
To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off,
digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
Other related posts:
