The rediscovery of ancient Greek philosophy has in turn sparked the Golden Age of many other societies.
Years later, the rediscovery of Greek philosophy sparked the Renaissance in medieval Italy.
Islamic students and scholars, fueled by coffee, revived Greek philosophy and laid the groundwork for the scientific method and modern mathematics.
What exemplified Islam for him, he said, was the decision by one early Muslim ruler to ransom Christian prisoners in exchange for works of Greek philosophy, medicine and mathematics.
To paraphrase the question, Tertullian asks what relationship exists between the world of revealed religion in which God's self-manifestation is the ultimate source of knowledge and the free intellectual inquiry of Greek philosophy.
According to Greek philosophy, one of the defining characteristics of humanity that distinguishes it from other forms of existence is a deeply engrained social instinct, the need for association and affiliation with others, a need for friendship.
An alternative approach is to appeal to the classical Greek philosophy that views kindness through the lens of reason, emphasizing the positive effects acts of kindness have not just on the receiver of kindness but to the giver of kindness as well, not for the salvation of the soul in the afterlife, but in this life.
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Hard to believe now, but in the early 1960s, most U.S. public schools still taught Latin, trigonometry, calculus, ancient Greek and Roman history, philosophy and civics.
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One such example is Dr. Ludwig Oechslin, who not only holds degrees in archaeology and ancient Greek, but also holds doctorates in philosophy, theoretical physics and astronomy.
For example, we learn in this book that the most common genre of philosophy works were translation and liberal restatements of Greek philosophers, especially Aristotle, Plato and Alexander of Aphrodisias.
Natural philosophy, based largely on the works of Greek and Roman thinkers like Aristotle, Galen, Ptolemy, Archimedes and many others, therefore became a major part of the syllabuses of Medieval universities.
It was compounded from a mixture of practical knowledge of things like metallurgy, pharmacy and glassmaking with the Greek practice of analysing and theorising about the world that is known as philosophy.
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