Once they were reintroduced by the West (as almost all of Aristotle’s works had been lost or destroyed under the Christians ), they were translated from Arabic and other tongues into Latin, organized and systematized, and soon became widely known. This occurred as a result of increasing contacts with the culture of the Muslims, who had found a full copy of Aristotle’s works in a Syrian basement in the 600s - the most momentous archaeological discovery in history. The central factor for exiting the Middle Ages was that after more than 600 years, in the century between 11, the West recovered all of the major works of Aristotle. If he cannot, let him not raise his head in opposition, but bow in reverence.” If he can understand it, let him thank God. But always holding the same faith unquestioningly, loving it, and living by it, he ought himself, so far as he is able, to seek the reasons for it. “No Christian ought in any way to dispute the truth of what the Catholic Church teaches. Anslem, in De Fide Trinitatis, summarized the general opinion of the time : one began with faith as their premises and then tried to make sense out of things. Until the 13th century they engaged in specific disputes on technical matters and specialized problems. The Middle Ages between the 9th-14th centuries progressed slightly with Scholastics (a general name for the philosophy of the whole Middle Age period), who were ardent Christians committed to advancing the doctrines of the Church by substantiating and harmonizing the dogmas of the authorities. Apart from a few insignificant compilations by minor figures, nothing happened intellectually for 400 years until the 9th century. The West lost almost all of the philosophic and literary works of the ancient pagans. THE AFTERMATH OF THE VICTORY OF SPIRITUAL BOLSHEVISMįor the next four hundred years after Christianity’s victory over Rome, reason, intellect, science, and material wealth vanished from the Western world, with the Dark Ages lasting from the 5th-9th century AD. See the Table of Contents and read in chronological order before continuing…
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