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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (78120)	10/22/2003 1:38:28 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

But the numerology et al is not his primary work, and should not be taken as representative. Furthermore, no philosophical school was flowering into scientific enterprise at the end of the Empire, so the fact that Augustine was a Christian had little to do with his prospects for becoming scientifically minded. The Academy, which was closed in the 6th century AD, had been long taken over by the Neo- Platonists, who were fully obscurantist without the benefit of scriptures--- well, that is not quite true, they used mystical exegesis on the Platonic dialogues. The Stoics had long before focused on moral improvement, and lost any interest in natural science. The Lyceum had closed long before, and even under Aristotle's successor, Theophrastus, was mainly interested in natural philosophy, that is, the encyclopedic method of observation, and knew nothing of experimentalism. The fact is, the rise of experimental science was something new under the sun.........