The French revolutionaries were Marxists before Marx even formalized his ideology.
They've sold a lie for centuries about the middle ages being the "dArK aGeS" since Christendom was actually God-fearing, and supplemented it with propaganda about their ego-worship in the name of "reason" as the "enlightenment," which was anything but that.
The 'Enlightenment", which was supposed to be a return to the classical way of thinking and a promulgation of the humanities, did just the opposite.
The Enlightenment was a response rooted in Protestantism, to Scholasticism, the pinnacle of which was Thomistic philosophy and was very rooted in Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy already. Just as Protestantism was an effort to make a reduced Christianity, the end result of its counterpart was to slowly reduce the sciences to nothing and drive philosophy out of the stable harbors of reason and logic.
I don not think it is a coincidence that both arose at the same time.
The French revolutionaries were Marxists before Marx even formalized his ideology.
They've sold a lie for centuries about the middle ages being the "dArK aGeS" since Christendom was actually God-fearing, and supplemented it with propaganda about their ego-worship in the name of "reason" as the "enlightenment," which was anything but that.
Spot on. A lot of people died from their little revolution.
100%, the brainwashing about the so-called enlightenment age is a big problem.
The 'Enlightenment", which was supposed to be a return to the classical way of thinking and a promulgation of the humanities, did just the opposite.
The Enlightenment was a response rooted in Protestantism, to Scholasticism, the pinnacle of which was Thomistic philosophy and was very rooted in Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy already. Just as Protestantism was an effort to make a reduced Christianity, the end result of its counterpart was to slowly reduce the sciences to nothing and drive philosophy out of the stable harbors of reason and logic.
I don not think it is a coincidence that both arose at the same time.
Well said.
That's why people who have said it's been going on for longer than Marx were telling the truth.
Imagine living through a scientific version of Christendom.
Just forget that it was holy men that collected, protected, and replicated whatever they could find so that knowledge was completely lost.