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To: tyc:> who wrote (28053)	12/19/2006 2:02:57 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78410

Yes, the people in the monestaries did copy a lot of the books written by the early Greeks, but they were not conducting science or free thinking. Why did they have to copy the Greeks, why did not emulate the Greeks with vigorous debate and write new books of science and philosophy? A lot of what the people in the monestaries did was describe what heaven looked like. The Greeks debated everything. Almost all the math used for the next thousand years was figured out by the Greeks (until Newton came along). I once wrote a paper comparing the Greek thinkers with other subsequent great thinkers. Other than Marcus Aurelius and /sextus empiricus (both light weights) I found none I can remember. Between the Greeks and the age of enlightenment not much thinking went on. It was illegal to freely think just as it is in much of the middle east right now. Name three thinkers up to 1500 AD that compared to Aristotle, Socrates, or Plato! They do not exist, except in asia. And there were hundreds of Greeks who were pretty much as intellectually developed as the above three. One of the early greeks Pliny?? had figured out logic that was not reproduced until Godel!