RE: If God created all the good things around us then it means he created all EVIL too
January 27, 2017 at 1:35 pm
(January 26, 2017 at 12:34 pm)Asmodee Wrote: … these people were not more learned, more intelligent or more wise than the great minds of the 20th century or today. In fact, in every case, they are less learned, less intelligent and less wise, without exception-my emphasis-
(January 27, 2017 at 12:29 pm)Asmodee Wrote: I'm not saying ancient peoples were necessarily stupid. There were some great minds in the past. That is absolute fact...I stand by my claim that ancient peoples are unlikely to have any "knowledge" which is very impressive today.
You may have inadvertently contradicted yourself. But I do understand what you are trying to say, i.e. people of the past had less knowledge available to them than today. The natural science of the ancient world was crude and often wrong. That does not change the fact that natural science, mathematics, and philosophy are separate domains. The field of mathematics has progressed since ancient times, but the proofs of Euclid and Pythagoras (your example) have not changed. They are just as applicable today as they were in 500 BC. The same is true in philosophy. The classical logic in Aristotle’s ‘Prior Analytics’ is still used. Only further philosophy can revise a prior a philosophical position, not biology, nor psychology, nor history, nor economics, nor even physics.
