December 16, 2004 04:11AM
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Roxana Cooper Wrote:
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> I definitely would not go so far as to say that
> the Holocaust, the conquest of the Americas or the
> Black Death were 'Good Things'. They were
> unquestionably terrible human disasters and
> tragedies the question is were they 'setbacks'?
> Would world history have gone better or more
> happily if they hadn't happened? And that is
> something we can never know.
>
> Take for example the destruction of the Library
> of Alexandria. Suppose all the accumulated
> 'wisdom' of the Ancient world had survived intact
> into the Middle Ages, would this have been a Good
> Thing? Remembering the stifling effect Aristotle's
> natural history had on scientific inquiry well
> into the Renaissance I am inclined to say no.
On the other hand, maybe the problem was that so little HAD survived. If Aristotle's version of things had been faced with more competition, Europeans might have been more open to multiple viewpoints.... in scientific inquiry as well as in social/religious thought. (I tossed in that last since the Library almost certainly contained quite a bit of "alternate" Christianity that the evolving Roman Catholic church would have been glad to repress, and because it would have also contained quite a bit on other religions & philosophies.... if the Library had survived, Church censorship wouldn't have been as successful, with all that entailed).
Kenuchelover.
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