Anthony Kenny on Medieval Philosophy: Section 3

[ammazzamoro]

A quick clarifying point cleaning the muddied waters: Wycliffe isn't the last of the schoolmen. Rather the last of the schoolmen is Denis the Carthusian, Doctor Ecstaticus.

[Newgrange73]

I've watched this series in full now, and what brilliant stuff. I'm a first year philosophy student and the lecturer we had to endure this semester was just horrid!! Thank you to whoever produced it... I'm hoping I passed my exam today, and if i did, it is thanks to this series, I only discovered two days ago.

[2000deg]

@Newgrange73 If you are interested in the history of philosophy, i would recommend you "History of Philosophy" by Fredrick Copleston in 11 volumes. You can read a limeted preview at google books. It is written in a very clear languange, and explains many complex ideas (e.g. Kant) in a way that is relativly easy to understand.

[Newgrange73]

Thanks a million for your suggestion. I bought Volume 1. There's a lot in that - how did this guy write another 10 and still have time to breath!! Thanks again.

[2000deg]

I'm glad you like it.

[entropia34332]

what i find incredible is not that the western philosophy was forced into intellectual masturbation for the 1000 years it was kidnaped and enslaved by the christian dogma, but that such people still exist.

[odinavadharma]

You fanatic! What's the argument for your stupid statement?

I laugh at people who call themselves "rationalists" being more fanatic than the worst of the religious extremists.

[Thomistica]

That's pure secular dogmatism.

[entropia34332]

lol...you acusing me of dogmatism is part of the irony democracy entails.

aristoteles and his christian clown,thomas d'aquino are probablly the fossils you still venerate...

today,except some clowns who dont wanna let go absolutism ,philosophy (continental and analytical) got into a post-metaphysical age...deal with it.

[Thomistica]

"...you acusing me of dogmatism is part of the irony democracy entails."

The paradox of pluralism is still a problem. It isn't solved by you merely calling it "irony" and going about your merry pluralistic way.

[neothomist1275]

"The paradox of pluralism is still a problem"

Yes, 'You MUST be openminded!" ;)

[RationalEmotive]

>aristoteles and his christian clown,thomas d'aquino

Ok, you have just disqualified yourself from any serious dialogue about the history of philosophy. There is no connection. Aquinas lived later and incorporated some elements of Aristotle in his philosophy.

Anyways, what is your point? No one is debating Aquinas' philosophy today. We just know a whole lot more than then. What counts is that his philosophy has had a significant influence on Western thought, as opposed to yours.

[neothomist1275]

How many of our noble modern creeds are not an extension or (what is more often the case) a deformation of Christian substance?

Heritage is humanity itself.

[leconfidant]

@entropia34332 You can say what you want about them, but the hard fact is, after the collapse of the Roman Empire, the only people willing or capable of preserving Plato, Aristotle, or any written knowledge of any kind were the Christian Church.

[theinternetscholar]

1:20 . . .then came Kurt Godel's incompleteness theorems, pretty much everything comes down to belief