There are great many reasons for studying what philosophers S1.______have said in the past
There are great many reasons for studying what philosophers S1.______
have said in the past. One is that we cannot separate the
history of philosophy from which of science. Philosophy is S2.______
large discussion about matters on which few people are quite S3.______
certain, and those few hold opposite opinions. As knowledge
increases, philosophy buds off the sciences.
For an example, in the ancient world and the Middle Ages S4.______
philosophers discussed motion. Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas
taught that a moving body would slow down until a force was constantly S5.______
applied to it. They were wrong. It goes on moving unless
something slows it down. But they had good arguments on their
side, and if we study these, and the experiments which proved
them right, this will help us to distinguish truth from S6.______
false in the scientific controversies of today. We also see how S7.______
different philosopher reflects the social life of his day. Plato and S8.______
Aristotle, in the slave-owning society of ancient Greece, thought
man's highest state was contemplation rather than activity. In the
Middle Ages St. Thomas believed a regular feudal system of nine S9.______
ranks of angels. Herbert Spencer, in the time of free competition
between capitalists, found the key to progress in the survival of the S10.______
fittest. Thus Marxism is seen to fit into its place as the philosophy
for the workers, the only class with a future.
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