Re:Life in China Is Getting Harder With High Prices
by philipov on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @02:57AM
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I think you mean they preserved Greek and Roman knowledge, which was the basis of the Renaissance. The Enlightenment was a few hundred years later, and consisted of new ideas.
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Re:Life in China Is Getting Harder With High Prices
by barry-cotter on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @07:41AM
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They didn’t just preserve Greek and Roman knowledge. Averroes, Avicenna, the Mutazilites, al-Razi, Maimonides, al-Farabi and others made enormous and original contributions to philosophy, medicine, chemistry and other fields. The Renaissance and the Enlightenment would have been unrecognizably different without the contributions of the thinkers of the Islamic world.
Re:Life in China Is Getting Harder With High Prices
by missosoup on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @12:36PM
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Can you suggest some reading materials to those who want to know more about this?
Re:Life in China Is Getting Harder With High Prices
by barry-cotter on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @11:05AM
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My knowledge of this period is very shallow and mostly comes from the History of Phiosophy Without Any Gaps podcast. Lost Enlightenment is probably the best place to start.
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00F8MIJMQ/geneexpre...