how Greek philosophers have influenced modern Western culture.?
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011Question by Renae: how Greek philosophers have influenced modern Western culture.?
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A number of ways, most of which are not philosophical in the modern sense. Ancient philosophers were the scientists of their day; mathematical development in Europe relied on the works of the likes of Pythagoras and Archimedes for hundreds of years. Medical beliefs remained unchanged from Greek and later Roman views (all of which HEAVILY relied on Greek precedent) right through to the development of the microscope. There are less beneficial ways. The American South used Plato’s theory of natural slavery, that some people are born incapable of independent thought and therefore need to be controlled, to justify the enslavement of black workers. As with everything, the good comes with the bad.
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BLOG greatmindsongod.blogspot.com Facebook Page on.fb.me Twitter twitter.com —————————————————————– Colin McGinn is a British philosopher currently working at the University of Miami. McGinn has also held major teaching positions at Oxford University and Rutgers University. He is best known for his work in the philosophy of mind, though he has written on topics across the breadth of modern philosophy. Ontological Argument: An ontological argument for the existence of God attempts the method of a priori proof, which uses intuition and reason alone. The argument examines the concept of God, and states that if we can conceive of the greatest possible being, then it must exist. In the context of the Abrahamic religions, ontological arguments were first proposed by the Medieval philosopher Anselm of Canterbury (in his Proslogion). Important variations were developed by later philosophers like René Descartes, Gottfried Leibniz, Norman Malcolm, Charles Hartshorne, and Alvin Plantinga. A modal-logic version of the argument was devised by the mathematician Kurt Gödel. The differences among the argument’s principal versions arise mainly from using different concepts of God as the starting point. Anselm, for example, starts with the notion of God as a being of which no greater can be conceived, while Descartes starts with the notion of God as being totally perfect, and Leibniz with something having all “perfections”. The ontological …
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