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and points out that "Pedophile organizations have linked their arguments to support of the rights of children".
and points out that "Pedophile organizations have linked their arguments to support of the rights of children".
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+== Philosophy ==
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+The article on Philosophy has to be one of the strangest histories of the subject. It begins with a long disquisition on the beginnings of philosophy in Ionia, interspersed with eccentric 1066-like comments on pederasty.
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+:Greek philosophy itself-like its close ally Greek science under the Ionian physicists-began in Ionia, on the coastal fringes of Anatolia, just when pederasty was introduced there and to the Ionian islands from Crete and Sparta.
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+:The Ionians conceived nature as operating in a non-mythological, impersonal manner. Reflecting the maritime setting of Greece, Thales thought water the basic element, which Anaximander expanded to air, earth, fire, and water. The Persian conquests ended such speculations and apparently also finished institutionalized pederasty, as when the conquerors crucified Polycrates of Samos in 521, with the consequent flight of the pederastic poets Ibycus and Anacreon who had been drawn to his court.
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+:Pythagoras returned to Southern Italy ca. 530 and founded his brotherhood at Croton, something between a college and a cloister, being pederastic, stressing form rather than matter.
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+:Another refugee from Ionia, Xenophanes of Colophon, who attacked Homer and Hesiod for their anthropomorphic conceptions of the immortals, founded the Eleatic school at Elea in southern Italy, the first metaphysical school: "But if oxen or horses had hands, oxen would make gods like oxen and horses would make gods like horses." His eromenos (beloved) Parmenides of Elea (d. ca. 480) regarded the cosmos as eternal, uncreated, and imperishable.
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+The philosophical parts are essentially correct. But the view that Xenophanes was the lover of Parmenides is mere speculation. According to Lesher <ref>J.H. Lesher (ed.), Xenophanes. Fragments, Toronto 1992 (p 102)</ref> Xenophanes probably did not even know Parmenides. (A similar claim that Parmenides was the lover of Zeno is suspect - Plato write in the ''Parmenides'', 127B 'Zeno was of good height and handsome to see; the story goes that he had been Parmenides' young lover'. This is possible but not otherwise attested. 'Even if the setting of the Parmenides is historically plausible, the notorious unreliabality of Plato's reports on earlier philosophers makes it unwise to take much else of what he says on trust. <ref>(The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy , Article on Zeno, R.D. McKirahan p.134)</ref>.
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+At the end of this summary, an extraordinarily sweeping statement shows the reason for all this:
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+:The significance of these advances in philosophy is that they broke decisively with the notion of a universe created by the gods [...]. The incompatibility between the divinely created universe of [the Abrahamic] revealed faiths and the mechanistic model of the cosmos, which evolved into the world picture of modern physics and astronomy, predetermined the conflict between religion and science that reached its peak in the late nineteenth century and still echoes in the antagonism between the Judeo-Christian tradition and the secular ideals of the gay liberation movement a hundred years later.
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+I.e. the mechanistic atheistic view of the universe began with pederasts, but its development was impeded by the influence of the Judaeo-Christianity.
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+The fact that Aristotle was probably not a pederast is a problem for Percy, but he explains this away by Aristotle's middle-class origins.
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+:Not hailing from the pederastic high society of Athens, as Plato did, but from the provincial bourgeoisie, Aristotle was less inspired by the pederastic lyrics of Ibycus, Anacreon, Theognis, and Pindar, and being more biologically oriented, felt that pedcrasty, natural to some, was a vice acquired by others and limited the teleological potential of reproduction.
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+Aristotle's great influence on the medieval scholastic tradition (which far outweighs that of Plato) presents a difficulty, but Percy rather skips over that, as we shall see. Percy ends the classical period with a short discussion on the Stoics and Epicureans, who were also pederasts.
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+:Not one of these pagan philosophers failed to practice pederasty, except perhaps Musonius Rufus (ca. A.D. 30-101), the only one to condemn it in his writings- if one excepts the Laws, the last of Plato's dialogues, which so contradicts the Phaedrus and the Symposium, where he had Eros alone excite knowledge and virtue.
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+We pass to the Middle Ages. Like many modern historians, Percy over-emphasises the contributions of the Islamic philosophers, although he adds the discovery that they were in fact pederasts:
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+:During the Renaissance of the twelfth century ideas flowed into Catholic Europe from Spain and other Muslim lands, often through Jewish translators. While Christians languished in ignorance and proscribed homosexuality, Muslims kept philosophy (and pederasty) alive: al-Kindi (d. 8701, Alfarabi (d. 950), Avicenna of Baghdad (d. 1037), and Averroes of Cordoba (d. 1198)-knowing nearly all of Aristotle's and several of Plato's extant works.
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+He has almost nothing to say about the great developments in science, metaphysics and logic that began with the Renaissance of the twelfth century, continued through the thirteenth and fourteenth century, and which (in the hands of late scholastics like Francisco Suarez and Domingo Soto) was the foundation of early modern philosophy and science.
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+St. Anselm, promoted from Abbot of Bec in Normandy to Archbishop of Canterbury in 1110, recommended light penalties, especially for young sodomitical clerks in opposition to the growing homophobia fanned by Peter Damian. As a philosopher Anselm logically explained why God became man (Cur deus homo).
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