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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 189.4 EAN: 9781402568725 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0151007209 Label: Harcourt Manufacturer: Harcourt Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: October 15, 2003 Publisher: Harcourt Studio: Harcourt Editorial Review: Product Description: Europe was in the long slumber of the Dark Ages, the Roman Empire was in tatters, and the Greek language was all but forgotten, until a group of Arab, Jewish, and Christian scholars rediscovered and translated the works of Aristotle. His ideas spread across Europe like wildfire, offering the scientific point of view that the natural world, including the soul of man, was a proper subject of study. The Catholic Church convulsed, and riots took place at the universities of Paris and Oxford. Richard Rubenstein recounts with energy and vigor this magnificent story of the intellectual ferment that planted the seeds of the scientific age in Europe and reflects our own struggles with faith and reason. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Aristotle reused, Renaissance ignitedI finish off a thread about the Dark Ages by reading about how the rediscovery and reinvention of Aristotle helped end them by stirring political, scientific and religious thinkers in more "modern" directions. One of the keys to the explosion was that Aristotle was rediscovered not in isolation, but in conjunction with hundreds of years of commentary by Muslim philosophers and theologians, so that Aristotle arrived not as revealed truth, but as potentially reusable tools for European ... Read More Rating:  - MisleadingI had purchased this book with great anticipation. I was no stranger to reading Mr. Rubenstein. However, I was more let down by this book than by his other works. I had found it difficult to understand how a professor of conflict resolution and public affairs can feel he is authoritative enough to write books on history and theology, but then as I read it became clearer. To start with the title of this book is misleading. While it is true that you should never judge a book by it's cover, ... Read More Rating: - The unity of reasonOnce upon a time, reason, metaphysics ethics and faith were all part of a unified quest for understanding. Unfortunately over the last eight hundred years or so, reason broke into schisms, just as Christiandom did. Can we ever regain the unity of thought of the middle ages that was set into motion by the rediscovery of Aristotle? Rubenstein, disappointingly, doesn't give a difinitive answer to this question. He does, however, write compellingly about the history of those times and highlights the ... Read More Rating:  - The Importance of AristotleThis book presents that the thesis that the Renaissance and eventually the Enlightenment in the Western World was brought out by a rebirth of appreciation for and understanding of Aristotelian philosophy. In this book you will learn about Thomas Aquinas' intellectual efforts to persuade his contemporaries that reason (i.e., Aristotelian thought) is absolutely essential to discovering both understanding the universe and discovering moral truths. This was a revolutionary idea for the time of ... Read More Rating: - Root of a Modern ProblemWhen researching works of fiction set in 14th Century France, as I am doing, one doesn't necessarily want the kind of exhaustive detail that one finds in tomes written by historians for historians. No, one really desires a more populist and popular history. Yet, at the same time, one really can't approach one's work with the cavalier attitude of the dilettante, either. So, one tries, as much as is possible, to immerse one's self into the period without getting bogged down in it. Such books as ... Read More |
