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by scns 1097 days ago
The translation of Philosophy is: The Love Of Wisdom.

Our natural sciences build on the foundation those greeks laid.

Pythagoras?

Math and Music Science.

Aristotle?

> His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology and the arts. (Wikipedia)

Plato?

Religion, science, human nature, love, sexuality, ethics, the idea of the soul, ethics, politics, aesthetics poetry and art. (Wikipedia combining two articles in two languages)

And many more.

Luckily the muslims preserved their writings, when the christians tried to destroy those "pagan" scribbles.

1 comments

That's quite a big stretch saying that. Christians did keep old greek writing during middle age. And muslim did Destroy as rich Persian knowledge.