Medieval Philosophy

I actually didn't know there was such a thing as medieval (Europe) philosophy but that was my boss's thesis.

Apparently you take the last thing that was written in about 700 AD and skip ahead to the early era of reformation and base your conjecture on the line between those two, with other assumptions based on the fairy tales, legends, and legal records from that big blank era.

One can assume what the moral temperment of at least the leaders was by the records they kept about their own judgement, which may not be factual, but is instead a record of what was considered just at the time.

This void illustrates one of the great points of the Hebrew Bible. Many "thinkers" claim that there are contradictions in the Bible. The fact is that the scriptures, especially the Chronicles of the Kings were kept by two parties. One side was the Priest (Church) and the other was the king (State.) By reading both versions, we gain a perspective of what really happened and, more importantly, what was thought about it.

Any good church will always operate parallel, but in contradiction to the state. Medieval Europe with its bishop/princes and pope/kings has a lot in common with the Neo-whatever christian politics we find in USA today.

Jesus said it best. No man can serve to masters, for he will love the one and hate the other. You cannot serve God and avarice.

Avarice is the leading cause of Crusades, a method of plundering under the name of Christianity. A sort of "just war" I suppose. We have this absolute muddle of democracy, God, flag, consumption, etc. that we confuse with "what is right." Trying to force the world to embrace this illusion, with the real reason being to control the energy spigot aka. America's god, is no different than killing/forcefully converting "turks" to make the world safe for Christianity, or, controlling the "Holy Relic spigot."

I find it interesting that the people who most embrace the concept of God and country and war etc. are the ones who have the biggest "need" for a heaven. They need to escape the poverty and oppression delivered to them by their own leaders. This is the same group who paid tithes to the daring knights for the chance to view, touch a relic. Those people believed these things got them closer to a heaven. Truth was, those crusades cost their nations major resources, causing common folk to live in base slavery for a thousand years.

I wish my boss had written about post modern philosophy. I suppose that going along my line of (uneducated) thinking, he has.