Oriental Treasures

After the invasions of the barbarian peoples, the empire split and with which classical science disappeared in the Western world. With the predominance of Christianity all pagan knowledge was rejected and the surviving Grecolatine texts on the collapse of the empire were anathematized. So what we now know as' Western culture 'was not only inspired by the East, but was also preserved by the Eastern peoples during the Middle Ages. One of the most important commentators of [ref: Aristotle]], for example, was [Averroes, an Arab physician, philosopher and jurist born in Spain. Translations of his works into Latin spread throughout Europe and exerted a remarkable influence.

Theology and moral philosophy

Natural philosophy was abandoned by the West until the 13th century. The interests of the time focused on theology and moral philosophy. The first Christian philosophers brought Christian doctrines closer to the mystical side of Platonism, whose greatest exponent was Saint Augustine.

But from Silgo XII the texts of the Greek classics reappear in Europe. And with them, Saint Thomas Aquinas will address a philosophical synthesis that will homologate the Christian doctrine. In this way, the dogma of the Church will take over ancient knowledge and spread it as a dogma of faith throughout the Western world.

To deepen the topic

Philosophy of the Low Middle Ages

The dispute about the universal

Arab and medieval Jewish philosophy

The scholastics of the 13th century

St. Thomas and the Theological Summa

The Breaking of the Agreement between Reason and Faith

Ockham and the critique of scholastic thought