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How did we forget to post this link? Raphael's School of Athens

402 posted on 04/08/2005 4:07:02 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (<-- Click on my name. The List-O-Links for evolution threads is at my freeper homepage.)

To: PatrickHenry

Thanks for the link. WONDERFUL painting. One of my faves of all times,

RAPHAEL WAS A GENIUS!!!!!

Centered is:

Plato, pointing up, the realm of the Universals. Aristotle, Palm and finger down, the realm of the particulars.

Where do we start? (it will determine where we wind up). Medieval western Culture (Christian Europe) kicked out Aristotle and argued that only the "heavenly" or spiritual deserved attention. Modern (post renaissance) western man has returned the favor, basically kicked out Plato, arguing that all that is needful, or at least all that can be spoken about meaningfully, is in Aristotle, the data, the particulars.

Calvin argues in the "Institutes" (first chapters) that a world view which does not recognize both is doomed.

Thanks for the post!

404 posted on 04/08/2005 4:26:25 AM PDT by chronic_loser

And here's one more link for ya: Click here if you dare!

Other than the word "epistemology," it doesn't have much to do with with this thread. But when I spotted it, I somehow thought of you.

406 posted on 04/08/2005 4:45:19 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (<-- Click on my name. The List-O-Links for evolution threads is at my freeper homepage.)

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