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Hi! I’m new here. I just registered for this forum because so often I want to check facts on things and simply don’t have the time to do it well on my own.
Anyway, I get so tired of finding potshots at the church EVERYWHERE! Today I was reading a book called Logic, a Graphic Guide by Cyran, Dan, Sharron Shatil and Bill Mayblin. It is published by Ikon Books. I’m really ignorant of the subject of logic and was trying to edify myself a bit. Reading along a red flag got raised when the authors dissed Aristotle and said that he was not as advanced in logic as Chrysippus but because Aristotle was the ‘darling of the Catholic Church’ he didn’t get the recognition he deserved. They kind of sweep over the fact that no actual writing of Chrysippus exists and that we only know about him 3rd hand.
But then they come up with this: that Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz who basically co-discovered calculus with Newton and was a great renaissance thinker was dubbed a heretic by the Catholic Church because he came up with the idea of using symbols to replace Aristotle’s square of oppositions. He also came up with the concept of the Reductio ad Absurdum. This piqued my curiosity so I googled Leibniz but could find so reference to his being a heretic. There is a book entitled The Courtier and the Heretic but I believe the Heretic referred to was Spinoza not Leibniz who seemed to have worked hard to refute Spinoza’s philosophy. One of the sites I was referred to was the Catholic Encyclopedia which never states that he was a heretic and in fact talks about him in approving terms because he was involved in trying to bring about dialogue between Protestants and Catholics.
Do you happen to know the truth of the matter, anybody? I am determined to go on Amazon and straighten out the story in a comment if the authors have misrepresented the matter. I’ve made a vow to myself that every time I see this slipshod bigotry and I am going to do my best to correct it. I understand the Church has done some bad things. I believe in looking at things honestly and learning from mistakes, but folks have become so knee-jerk in their condemnation and so sloppy in their facts. So much for calm, cool logic. You would think logicians would be smarter than that!
So anybody who might know about Leibniz can you clarify whether or not he was ‘dubbed a heretic’ before I go railing on about the ignorance of the authors. I don’t want to have to eat humble pie!
Thanks!
Faith
Anyway, I get so tired of finding potshots at the church EVERYWHERE! Today I was reading a book called Logic, a Graphic Guide by Cyran, Dan, Sharron Shatil and Bill Mayblin. It is published by Ikon Books. I’m really ignorant of the subject of logic and was trying to edify myself a bit. Reading along a red flag got raised when the authors dissed Aristotle and said that he was not as advanced in logic as Chrysippus but because Aristotle was the ‘darling of the Catholic Church’ he didn’t get the recognition he deserved. They kind of sweep over the fact that no actual writing of Chrysippus exists and that we only know about him 3rd hand.
But then they come up with this: that Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz who basically co-discovered calculus with Newton and was a great renaissance thinker was dubbed a heretic by the Catholic Church because he came up with the idea of using symbols to replace Aristotle’s square of oppositions. He also came up with the concept of the Reductio ad Absurdum. This piqued my curiosity so I googled Leibniz but could find so reference to his being a heretic. There is a book entitled The Courtier and the Heretic but I believe the Heretic referred to was Spinoza not Leibniz who seemed to have worked hard to refute Spinoza’s philosophy. One of the sites I was referred to was the Catholic Encyclopedia which never states that he was a heretic and in fact talks about him in approving terms because he was involved in trying to bring about dialogue between Protestants and Catholics.
Do you happen to know the truth of the matter, anybody? I am determined to go on Amazon and straighten out the story in a comment if the authors have misrepresented the matter. I’ve made a vow to myself that every time I see this slipshod bigotry and I am going to do my best to correct it. I understand the Church has done some bad things. I believe in looking at things honestly and learning from mistakes, but folks have become so knee-jerk in their condemnation and so sloppy in their facts. So much for calm, cool logic. You would think logicians would be smarter than that!
So anybody who might know about Leibniz can you clarify whether or not he was ‘dubbed a heretic’ before I go railing on about the ignorance of the authors. I don’t want to have to eat humble pie!
Thanks!
Faith
