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Entry: Second Spring Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/second_spring#21593 Post contents: <i>Let me put it this way....Spinoza was Averroes in a Cartesian skirt. And your beloved Acquinas almost got himself barbequed for trying to square the Avicenna circle.</i> Just one thinker, Spinoza. What about the rest of modern philosophy? Setting aside the question of what the Paris condemnations actually condemned, Aquinas is not the whole of medieval intellectual thought. <i> The “reformation” & “enlightenment” came not from the overthrow of the “church”...but from the “shit-canning” of Aristotle....</i> Actually there was renewed attention paid to Aristotle during the Renaissance and afterwards. As for the modern period, yes many of the big names repudiated Aristotle. So what. It doesn't mean that Aristotle was 100% wrong. <i>and the re-institutionalization of that pathetic, compacting, ignoring, reducing Plato.</i> Sure, there were some universities were the new Platonists gained prominence. But this was not true of all of Europe. <i>Exhausted, we left infinite for a long safe ride with the finite. No more purpose, just the facts ma’am.</i> Yes, teleology was gradually abandoned. What's your point? </i>Finally, your precious Augustine & Paul, thought that Christ was Plato...</i> Any citations to back this ridiculous assertion up? Sent at: 2008 10 13