hilosophy did not die with Ancient Greece. Out of the natural philosophy of those times came science. The wonders of chrome and metal cars, planes, the atom bomb and even satellites have their roots in the firm base of Greek philosophy. But Socrates, Aristotle, Euclid, Thales, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Democritus, Pythagoras, Plato, Anaxagoras, Lucretius and all the rest did not have in mind the manufacture of material things when they released their knowledge to the world.
Even though all these great things developed out of Greek thought and mathematics, the great names of philosophy considered they had failed.
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And so they had. Until today.
For their philosophic goal was the understanding of the spirit of man and his relationship to the universe. And they could only speculate upon it. They never proved their contention that man was a spirit clothed in flesh, they could only assert it.
And so they drowned in the avalanche of superstition which engulfed the world in the Dark Ages.
Why did they fail? They needed the higher mathematics and electronics which would, over two thousand years later, develop their philosophies.
These were developed. But they were used for different purposes than those intended, and man turned his back upon their lofty dreams while building planes to bomb cities and atom bombs to wipe out the mankind no one had ever understood.
Until Scientology.
And in it the goals of Greek philosophy live again.
Using modern developments in the sciences, it became possible to approach again the basic problems: What is man? What is his relationship to the universe? What is the universe?
