Rachel Johnson
AP English 11
Mrs. Wilhelmus
August 12, 2013
Reason or
Belief
During the medieval times the church played a huge
role in the every
day society. To believe in God was normal and it was an
unspoken subject to go
against in what the church was teaching. The Christianity
religion helped people
answer those tough questions such as where do we come from
and believing in
God gave people the answers they wanted without any trouble
in them believing
it to be true or not. During this era people were afraid to
believe in philosophy
teaching because most of the facts were based on scientific
reasonings.
When people
started to look at philosophical thoughts there were
uproars in the communities because in essence they were
going against the church
and God. For this
reason people were hesitant to listen to the teachings of Aristotle
and Plato since they were before the huge conversion of
Christianity so their
thoughts were all based on science.
New
philosophers emerged and they were
Aquinas and St. Augustine. They
believed that the
teachings of Christ and the philosophers before them would make
more people believe in philosophy. There were similarities
in both Christianity and
philosophy so blending the two worked in favor for them.
They blended the
teachings so people could still believe in God and not be
scrutinized by the Church
but in return they could start thinking in philosophical
ways
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