LQD: Capitalism is Not Worth Saving | 98 comments (98 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Could a biotistic society . . . (4.00 / 2)

Are the long dark periods really there though, or are they interpretations of later historians living in an empire? I still haven't quite figured that out.

And in any case, all of this is speculation: your argument seems to me at least as faith based as Millman's. Past performance does not guarantee future results, after all.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Sat May 16th, 2009 at 11:59:34 AM EST
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Re: Could a biotistic society . . . (4.00 / 3)

All the things ive read suggest that suggest that its part of a suggestion that the culture of kingdom and empire are direct successors to the knowledge and culture of the Classical world. Conveniently editing out the culture of the Islamic world in-between. If they had been acknowledged as co-inheritors, and cultural leaders, then political and ethical situations would be somewhat different.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sat May 16th, 2009 at 12:24:10 PM EST
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What did "Islamic world" invent? (none / 0)

And when? For the first three centuries, those centuries bin Laden laments the grandeur of, every day, in his cave, most of the "Islamic world" was undergoing its "Golden Age", characterized by a Judeo-Christian majority.

... Many top "Islamic" scholars, with impressive Arab sounding names, turn out to have been Jews.

It is true, though that in the times of Ibn Rushd ("Averroes"), the Islamist world was truly Islamist, while capable of conducting a conversation with the West on Physics. But Ibn Rushd was a Spaniard, and his influence (in particular his theory of secularism being compatible with theocratism) had a huge influence on the Franks, but not in the rest of the Muslim world (Muslim Spain was its Caliphate).

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by Patrice Ayme on Sat May 16th, 2009 at 03:26:36 PM EST
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Re: What did "Islamic world" invent? (none / 1)

So you want to discount the contribution to mathematics and medicine? or are you to claim that any discovery was made by jewish scholars?

Or their founding of optics? major works in Astronomy, Geology and Chemistry?

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sat May 16th, 2009 at 04:42:57 PM EST
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Re: What did "Islamic world" invent? (none / 1)

or are you to claim that any discovery was made by jewish scholars?

Well, Jews and Christians did have special status in Islamic society, especially during the Caliphate. The Jews in particular tended to occupy positions of importance. That period of Islamic culture was particularly pluralistic. I don't think it occurred to the Caliphs to be concerned that many of the best works were produced by Jews.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Sun May 17th, 2009 at 12:33:32 PM EST
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When "Islam" was strong, (4.00 / 2)

the "Islamic" world was a melting pot, multi ethnic, multi religious, multi cultural.

Not all, but many "Islamist" thinkers were not that Islamist. So many ended up stoned to death.

So I am not dismissing. Pure Islam, like pure Christian, is rare as a contributor (great Xtian thinkers were later condemened by the fascist Xtian church; Erigenus, Abelard, Buridan, etc..)

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by Patrice Ayme on Sun May 17th, 2009 at 05:55:00 PM EST
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Re: What did "Islamic world" invent? (none / 1)

Algebra.

This has been another edition of Simple Answers to Simple Questions.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Sat May 16th, 2009 at 06:06:39 PM EST
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I confess to some provocativeness (4.00 / 3)

...I had been provoked first... True some Arab speaking Muslim mathematicians did contribute. But Babylonian, Greek and Indian contributions were more important.
Full symbolic algebra was invented by Descartes.

Al-Jabr is the description of the maneuver to solve the quadratic equation. That came, and was invented by the treatise written in 820 by the Persian mathematician, Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī (from which algorithm comes). He was from Uzbekistan, although he was resident at the "House of wisdom" in Baghdad (then held by Persians, not Arabs).
PA

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by Patrice Ayme on Sun May 17th, 2009 at 06:25:46 PM EST
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There were DARK AGES (none / 1)

The collapse that was the Roman empire, especially after it went plutocratic theocratic fascist after being simply plutocratic fascist, is a case in point.

Dark Macedonian ("Hellenistic") another example. Dark Age of Greece ~ 1000 BCE, another. Collapse of Mayas, an even more spectacular case. Collapse of Crete, too.

And then, of course, there is what happened to what was long the richest and most civilized region of the world, the Middle East.

PA

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by Patrice Ayme on Sat May 16th, 2009 at 03:01:26 PM EST
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Re: There were DARK AGES (none / 0)

I always thought that Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was a history, but Gay in "The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism " seems to say it's more of an anti-Christian screed...

by asdf on Sat May 16th, 2009 at 03:29:14 PM EST
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Long subject, on which I have written hundreds (none / 1)

of pages already.

Christian propaganda has highjacked civilization, after Christianity tried its best to destroy it completely.

Why did all the books end up with the Arabs? because the Arabs were dedicated scholars? No. The first book written in (primitive, experimental) Arabic was the Qur'an.

The books of the West ended in the East and South because the Christians destroyed them. Oh, they also destroyed physically the intellectuals, who fled to Persia. To protect them, Persia declared war to Xtian fanatical Rome/Constantinople. That terrible war destroyed both empires, and Muhammad decided to pounce, as is explained in the Qur'an.

And so on...

Gibbon: too nice. But we are 250 years later, and I do not have to be as nice...
PA

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by Patrice Ayme on Sun May 17th, 2009 at 06:03:36 PM EST
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