Pythagoreans Celebrate the Sunrise (1869)
In our previous post, the philosopher Joshua Shrode demonstrated how the Islamic religion had turned its back on the scientific and logical thinking of the Greeks and Romans. Commenting on the post, the historian of science Chris Crawford showed how Jewish and Christian thinkers mostly did the same until the work of Thomas Aquinas. Here is their exchange. Continue reading The Battle Between Reason and Theism
My last post about learning from the past got me to thinking about Confederate statues. As my son pointed out, what’s most objectionable about a statue of, for example, Robert E. Lee, isn’t that he had slaves or defended slavery, or even that he took up arms against the government. Continue reading On Confederate Statues
“I know how unfashionable it is now to acknowledge in life or history any genius loftier than ourselves. Our democratic dogma has leveled not only all voters but all leaders; we delight to show that living geniuses are only mediocrities, and that dead ones are myths. … Since it is contrary to good manners to exalt ourselves, we achieve the same result by slyly indicating how inferior are the great men of the earth.” ~ Will Durant (The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time