Anthony Kenny on Medieval Philosophy: Section 5

[acerb45666555]

These fellows are so smart, why arent they the Government!

[memoryburn7]

hey antisyncretism, consider yourself lucky that medieval/christian philosophy gets any of our precious time at all.

bishop berkeley, in so far as he was important/interesting, was not a christian philosopher either. descartes, kant, wittgenstein and many other philosophers were christians, but that does not make them christian philosophers. the term christian philosopher is a bit of an oxymoron anyways, no matter what aquinas says.

[Antisyncretism]

Apparently medieval philosophers are so unimportant that they can all be summed under one head with no real concentration on any one of them.

I'm guessing its because so many of them were Christian (discounting Averroes, Maimonides etc) the only time any Christian philosopher got any real time on this show was Berkley...and that was split with John Locke, its so stupid that this show keeps opting for more 'secular' philosophers over everyone else.

Makes me think less of this show.

[memoryburn7]

@Antisyncretism consider yourself lucky that medieval/christian philosophy gets any of our precious time at all.

bishop berkeley, in so far as he was important/interesting, was not a christian philosopher either. descartes, kant, wittgenstein and many other philosophers were christians, but that does not make them christian philosophers. the term christian philosopher is a bit of an oxymoron anyways, no matter what aquinas says.

[leconfidant]

@memoryburn7 Nope. Descartes' philosophy was comitted to Christianity just as much Descartes was. Kant's categorical imperative is clearly derived from Jesus's 'Do unto others...', Wittgenstein, inasmuch as he refrains from preaching, clearly derives influence from Tolstoyan Christianity. Kierkegaard, Pascal... You can say what you want about the Christian church, but without them preserving and discussing it, we'd have had no Plato, no Aristotle and probably not a lot of philosophy at all.

[StephenBRICK]

i love how they are siting there at the end looking at eachother, it cracks me up

[AtheistdotEDU]

@StephenBRICK It really is very funny.

[morvensky]

@StephenBRICK Being philosophers, they probably decided that it is the most practical way to talk.

[philosophyteacher]

superb

[samuelejigu]

Thanks for posting this