(November 19, 2023 at 10:41 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: It should be noted that kings and princes used divine right to justify their rule over peasants. It just so happens that those same kings and princes had sway in who could and could not be educated beyond, say, knowing when to plant crops.
They did? Can you point me to examples of evidence these kings limited who could be educated?
Quote:Put shortly, who decided who needed education or not? Kings and princes supported by religious authorities, in a large part.
See above.
Quote: It should also be noted that the Church had a fairly hostile attitude to scientific learning in general, meaning to me that even it isn't directly culpable in misunderstanding geosphericity or heliocentricity, it's still guilty in part of retarding learning.
Again, can you give us evidence of this “hostility”?
Quote:That comes with punishing scientists for learning.
Can you give any examples of scientists “punished for learning”?
