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Loading... Aristotle's children : how Christians, Muslims, and Jews rediscovered ancient wisdom and illuminated the Dark Ages (edition 2003)by Richard E. Rubenstein
Work InformationAristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Dark Ages by Richard E. Rubenstein
   No current Talk conversations about this book.   PendleHillLibrary | Oct 5, 2022 |  Rubenstein offers good descriptions of some of Aristotle’s philosophy, contrasting it well with other philosophical and religious systems with which it competed through the ages, and follows the particulars of the survival of many of his works (and later commentaries thereon) from ancient Greece through the Mediterranean Muslim world into Spain and then beginning about 12th century into France and Italy, where Catholic scholars attempted to reconcile this gift of ancient wisdom with mutually incommensurate religious dogma, and where it seeded the Renaissance. Very readable and recommended. The last nine pages in my edition comprise an inept purported attempt to draw lessons from the preceding which might be useful for the world. It’s a jarring disconnect from the rest. The author should have made this into a separate chapter and omitted the chapter. Among the more easily denoted problems are anthropomorphism, tautology, self-contradiction, straw-men, bombast, lumping, cliche, hand-waving, and repeated mischaracterizations of science. Aristotle would have puked. An undefined “Aristotelian project” is touted twice in these last pages. I did not recall such a thing from the previous (290) pages and could not find it there or in the index. One must then wonder how freely the author borrowed for those 290 pages. (  ) KENNERLYDAN | Jul 11, 2021 |  ) Jen.ODriscoll.Lemon | Jan 23, 2016 | ) Jen.ODriscoll.Lemon | Jan 23, 2016 |  ) IraSchor | Apr 8, 2007 | no reviews | add a review
Europe was in the long slumber of the Middle Ages, the Roman Empire was in tatters, and the Greek language was all but forgotten, until a group of twelfth-century scholars rediscovered and translated the works of Aristotle. His ideas spread like wildfire across Europe, offering the scientific view that the natural world, including the soul of man, was a proper subject of study. The rediscovery of these ancient ideas sparked riots and heresy trials, caused major upheavals in the Catholic Church, and also set the stage for today's rift between reason and religion. In Aristotle's Children, Richard Rubenstein transports us back in history, rendering the controversies of the Middle Ages lively and accessible-and allowing us to understand the philosophical ideas that are fundamental to modern thought. No library descriptions found. |
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