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To: Grainne who wrote (27535)	1/2/1999 1:02:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Knowledge certainly has increased- everyone may not have access to it, but it is there. A high school student can cover as much math as a Rennaissance scholar- in a highschool that teaches calculus. The sciences have virtually exploded- you have to remember how little of the world was actually known to earlier civilizations. Now we know not only the surface of most of the world, but we know the terrain on the bottom of the oceans. We begin to be familiar with the organisms that live in the deepest parts of the ocean. We travel to the stars, we study the origins of the universe, we are very, very far ahead in the sciences. The wisdom of many civilizations was lost for ages, until archaeologists dug so many of them up and broke the codes to their various languages- remember the Rosetta stone? Mathematics and astronomy were preserved by the Arabs while Europe fell into the dark ages. While each civilization has different areas of excellence we now have the chance to build using much of what was great in other civilizations combined with the unique gifts of our own. I would agree with you that in philosophy things do not change as much. But there is still a ladder of thought, that rung by rung explores ever more divers possibilities. Recently I mentioned Kirkegaard- his philosophy was revived by Heidegger and Jaspers and later influenced Camus (humanist) and Sartre (existentialist). Just so with the Greek philosophers who begin even longer chains of scholarship- and since their philosophy never grows stale, because unlike science it is not a linear progression, and old discoveries are not superceded by the new, their work will always remain a foundation that philosophers yet unborn can build on.