NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, Jacques Le Goff
23 Jan 2019
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The term dark ages is problematic for two reasons. First, although both natural philosophy and the technical arts were in relative decline in. Europe during the early medieval period, the same was not true in other parts of the world: for example, china was undergoing its golden age of technological development at this time (see below) Another reason why this term is problematic is because in the later medieval period, both natural philosophy and the technical arts gained importance in europe as well. Part of the reason for this was the merging of both disciplines to christianity. Things slowly start to change in later medieval period (13th century) with the recovery of many greek texts that were lost prior to this time: mixed reaction to revival of greek texts especially someone like aristotle. Initially, aristotle regarded as dangerous since many of his ideas contradict church in 1210, university of paris banned his work on natural philosophy.
