Guo Kang could not give an answer to Brother Patrick's question.
He has indeed learned some knowledge and has seen more of the world than these people, but the problem is that behind the monk is the entire Greek philosophy.
The so-called Greek philosophy is actually not limited to Greece, but is the theoretical achievement of the entire Mediterranean world. Moreover, after the Hellenistic era, its influence has spread to vast areas from Central Asia to Western Europe. To this day, theologians of Tianfang Sect and Cross Sect are still studying this theory.
As Patrick said, the Greeks had a very clear concept of this as early as Hesiod's time. You know, it was still the Western Zhou Dynasty, and Greek civilization itself had not yet taken shape.
I don’t know what happened to the prehistoric Greeks to leave such a strong psychological shadow. But it is certain that this mentality matured very early and accompanied the development of the entire philosophy.
And Greek philosophy had a great influence on monotheism. The foundation of theology is based on the theories of Plato and Aristotle. Therefore, the theology here has inherited all these theories.
Since this tradition is very long-standing, even if Guo Kang questions it, it will definitely be useless. So many philosophers, Hao Shou, have been using this kind of thinking for two thousand years. The problems he can think of have already been thought of by others.
This phenomenon is common in all fields, and even has a great impact on the Purple Horde Khanate itself.
After the fall of Queen Mother Helena, scholars at the time conducted a series of reflections with the support and acquiescence of the Khan's nobles. Many people have conducted very in-depth research on why this phenomenon occurs.
Among them, many scholars finally reached a consensus: Helena's power is very special. Strictly speaking, she was not a traditional Greek lady who was involved in politics, but the first Seris-style queen mother in the Roman Empire.
This historical position should have belonged to her mother-in-law, Queen Mother Maria, but Queen Mother Maria's influence was limited and her reign was short. Therefore, the main research is almost always carried out on Queen Mother Helena.
This research conclusion has had a great impact on private and official people, and even other countries in the Mediterranean. This also led to some interesting results.
When the Purple Horde Khanate holds a great court meeting every year, many local officials and vassal leaders will come to participate. Every time, when the disgraced mother Queen Anna attends, everyone calls her in various ways: the locals in Syria and the Latin vassals call her Baselisa; the people in the steppe call her Ketun; the Turks in Asia Minor. The chief called her Kalariche; the Romanian officials called her Queen.
And if Queen Elizabeth appears, everyone will just call her "Queen Mother".
Because, in everyone's eyes, the Queen Mother of the Purple Horde Khanate was different from the mothers of monarchs in previous countries. In the past, people generally used terms such as "the widowed queen" and "the queen with children" to refer to her. But these terms obviously cannot accurately describe the situation of the Purple Horde Khanate. There is no more suitable corresponding word in various languages.
Until now, whether in formal occasions or private discussions, everyone tends to directly use the Chinese pronunciation of "Queen Mother" to refer to the queen mothers of the Purple Horde Khanate. Including Guo Kang himself, he always refers to Helena as "Queen Mother" when chatting with others.
This phenomenon has naturally attracted scholars’ in-depth thinking.
Among them, one of the most influential research conclusions is that in the Greek-Roman civilization organization, the holder of power was only the father, and there was only the father's will; while in the Seris civilization, the two persons of the father and the mother were Personalities exist simultaneously, and parents' wills also exist independently of each other and have an impact on family members. This two-person, two-will organizational method is hidden deep in the core of Seris civilization, which leads to these phenomena.
Before Guo Kang, I actually didn’t quite understand their ideas. The education he received in his previous life believed that in the Seris civilization, the mother's power over her son was also a manifestation of the father's power. However, Greek philosophers did not agree with this at all.
These people have a much clearer understanding of fatherhood than he does, and they have a complete set of theological and philosophical theories for analysis and verification. Apart from anything else, Guo Kang still doesn't understand the terms "several persons, genders and ambitions". But the Greek scholars used it extremely skillfully...
It may also be because they specialize in this, so these things that others seem to be "similar" to the Greeks are hugely different and obvious, and cannot be regarded as the same kind at all.
In order to verify this conclusion, philosophers conducted a series of analyses. During the research process, someone proposed a set of criteria that later became widely accepted: as long as you observe whether there is a mother-child relationship that can exist independently, you can judge whether the observation target is a monopatriarchal society.
For example, in Greece, this result is obvious. Scholars have long believed that the father is the true source of children. As Aristotle metaphorically put it, woman is the soil and man provides the seed. Of course, the plants that grow from the soil only originate from the seeds sown by the father and have nothing to do with the mother.
In this theoretical system, the physical connection between mother and child is not even strong, because she is just a borrowed nanny who plants and nurtures embryos. This philosophical discussion denies the relationship between mother and children from the very beginning, which naturally makes mothers lack strong enough direct power over their children. Even if you have authority, you must rely on your father.
After the division of Rome, philosophy did not disappear along with the classical empire. The church and theology also continued to develop on the basis of these philosophical achievements.
The famous theologian Aquinas pointed out that the father provides the child's form, and the mother provides the child's substance. For the child, the father is the active principle and the mother is the passive, material principle. Although the father cannot directly give the child a soul, the form power provided by the father allows the child's body to receive the soul, so he occupies the main and leading position.
Like many other philosophical ideas, this view continued to develop in later philosophy and theology and remained influential long into the future.
According to theologians, the mother has no power over her children because the soul comes from the Father, and it is the father who provides the bridge between the soul and the physical world. Therefore, children are first of all the people of the Heavenly Father, and secondly they are the derivative and supplement of the father. The mother is the most basic agent and of course has no right to interfere with other people's property.
From this perspective, the child appears to be born of the mother, but in a theological and philosophical sense, it is not actually born of the mother.
Many public cases faced by the church in later generations also originated from this.
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