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Pastimes : Ask John Galt...
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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (946)1/4/1997 10:41:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly   of 4006
 
While Christian philosophy encouraged a search for order in the universe I don't think you can dismiss all paganism (and in a way you don't, because you refer to Plato and Aristotle). Some early Greeks made impressive contributions to science. They, like the Christian thinkers who would follow a thousand years later, believed in philosophical realism, in a world composed of order and structure. And they developed logic and pursued truth. Most paganism did discourage scientific thought, because it was fatalistic and superstitious. But certainly not all.

We have the benefit, as Eric Voeglin related it, of the marriage of Athens and Jerusalem.
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