PHIL 1000 Lecture : October 15.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1000
• Professor: john Russon

Document Summary

Greek culture spread all throughout the roman empire. For almost a thousand years, the culture that was developed in ancient greece was the dominant culture in the west. Modernity was marked by the rise of the capitalist economy, scientific revolution, modern democracy. The rise of christianity was also occurring in europe at this time. Christianity was translating its religious authority into political power. The inquisition was a special institution of the church charged with defending orthodoxy. Used torture to try and determine rather people were truly religious or not. June 22, 1633: galileo confesses before the church - he was a major figure in the transforming of history, yet he renounced everything he believed in front of inquisition to avoid torture/death. Descartes and galileo were both founding figures of new scientific positions at the same time. Both were in positions of controversy though, because the catholic church had already established its views.