Yes. Absolutely. Aristotle and Plato, and philosophical thinking in general, were pretty much abandoned in Greece, especially after the fall of Constantinople.
The one place where philosophy was regularly practiced was in the Christian West.
There was a golden age of philosophy in the Muslim world, but that was the work of people they conquered. And it didn’t last long. It was in the Christian monasteries and universities that philosophy was preserved and developed.
China had scholarship and philosophy, but without the basis in moral love that Christianity offers. Taoism is contradictory and can even be turned to evil. Confucianism was the main basis of their civilization, but it doesn’t make much allowance for free will among ordinary people.
Thank you for your answer.
We should only say Jerusalem and Athens. Twin pillars sound much better in a marketing sense :D
Though obviously in many cases Rome refined some of the earlier Greek thinking, as I am sure a guy called Cicero would have to agree to.
But, it was largely a refinement... Or did Rome bring something fundamentally new to the mix?
Sadly I know too little of China.
I have read Spengler’s “Untergang des Abendlandes”, but it does get a bit convoluted. It’s a loooong history they do have there.