Actually it was thousands of ancient Greeks over hundreds of years who developed the most advanced math, science, logic and philosophy the world ever saw and they brought in the dawn of civilzation. Hundreds of years BC!
But as the Roman's destroyed 99% of all ancient Greek writings so much was lost. Had those writings survived I believe we would be a thousand years ahead of where we are now.
The ancient Greeks were a thinking society. No society rivaled theirs for over a thousand years after its fall.
There were fellows who figured out all sorts of science (many Pythgaroras and Aristotles), who figured out so much advanced math and science, and logic so sophisticated it was not rediscoved until the 20th century. You will find no thinkers to compare with any ancient Greeks for hundreds and hundreds of years later. They knew the earth was round and figured it to 25 miles circumferance.
The church took Aristotle and bastardized his writings for centuries. And I believe Aristotle was Platos's student?
Will Durant:
""The persistent effort to subordinate fancy to reason is the dominate quality of the Greek mind.
Ergo, Greek literature is modern, or rather contemporary, we find it hard to understand Dante or Milton, but Euripides and Thuscydides are kin to us mentally and belong to our age.
This is because though myths may differ, reason remains the same, and the life of reason, makes brothers of its lovers, in all times, and everywhere."
<<Actually it is Aristotle who is the founder of the western scientific philosophy, not Plato
You might have learn that when you were reading all that back in the 60's.
Aristotle
More than twenty-three hundred years after his death, Aristotle remains one of the most influential people who ever lived. He contributed to almost every field of human knowledge then in existence, and he was the founder of many new fields. According to the philosopher Bryan Magee, "it is doubtful whether any human being has ever known as much as he did". [71] Aristotle was the founder of formal logic, [72] pioneered the study of zoology, and left every future scientist and philosopher in his debt through his contributions to the scientific method. [73] [74] |
