Wisdom’s Call - Proverbs 8'..Mariana insists on another very important idea: he says that natural law is vastly superior to the power of each king or ruler. This is an essential idea that is still perfectly applicable today. I believe that we must be aware of and very proud of the fact that when Thomas Jefferson and the rest of the founding fathers of the United States were considering whether or not to rise up against the King of England in order to give encouragement to the rest of the founding fathers of the great American homeland, he says to them: you only have to read one book, "
The History of Spain" by Father Juan de Mariana. (and in fact, Madison even sends him a copy of the book). Because it is a history of Spain written from the perspective of freedom, unmasking the tyrants - Mariana categorizes as tyrants Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar etc. It is a history written from the perspective of man's tireless fight to defend his freedom against tyrants and others who would trample it.'
- Jesús Huerta de Soto (minute 18:03 - 18:56,
Source, 2013)
'..Copernicus, Galileo, Tycho Brahe, Kepler, and Newton were all extraordinary products of the apparently procrustean and allegedly Scholastic universities of Europe....sociological and historical accounts of the role of the university as an institutional locus for science and as an incubator of scientific thought and arguments have been vastly understated.''Hastings Rashdall set out the modern understanding of the medieval origins of the universities, noting that the earliest universities emerged spontaneously as "a scholastic Guild, whether of Masters or Students... without any express authorisation of King, Pope, Prince or Prelate."
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Although it has been assumed that the universities went into decline during the Renaissance because the scholastic and Aristotelian emphasis of its curriculum was less popular than the cultural studies of Renaissance humanism, Toby Huff has noted the continued importance of the European universities, with their focus on Aristotle and other scientific and philosophical texts, into the early modern period, arguing that they played a crucial role in the Scientific Revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries. As he puts it "Copernicus, Galileo, Tycho Brahe, Kepler, and Newton were all extraordinary products of the apparently procrustean and allegedly Scholastic universities of Europe....sociological and historical accounts of the role of the university as an institutional locus for science and as an incubator of scientific thought and arguments have been vastly understated."
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Establishment,
Medieval universityContextLos Escolásticos y la Ciencia Económica - Jesús Huerta de Soto, 2013
In The Electric Universe a Future of Peace and Love(To Heal) - '..the most sacred things in the universe are humanity and freedom.'