/lit/ - Literature

I keep hearing on this board how metaphysics is dead and irrelevant, but I don't see any reason to think this at all. Actually it's precisely logical positivism which is "dead" in academia but has now descended to popular philosophy since that's how it goes.
I predict we will see a significant revival of metaphysics in the coming decadesm in fact we are already seeing increased attention being given to scholastics and Aristotle, for instance Aristotle's ethics in contemporary ethics theories.
These naive empiricists decrying any attempt at a systematic ontology will be the ones out of touch.

So yeah go away with your "muh positivism makes everything else irrelevant" bullshit

The more I delve into medieval history and philosophy the more I'm convinced that the scientific method and other fruits of modernity developed out of the Christian theological framework. It seems to me that the Enlightenment narrative of Christendom being a dark stain on the glory of Europe is severely mistaken, prejudiced and just bad history. I've seen some writers hint in this direction but largely whenever I try to put forward this hypothesis I just seem like a strange reactionary, even though It's increasingly obvious to me. I mean, when you actually look into common myths about the Church it all starts to look severely exaggarated or plain propaganda like the Inquisition, Crusades etc. Actually looking into it I was forced to conclude that the Inquisition was a highly developed legal system that anticipated modern forms, and after examining original sources there is a concensus among scholars that executions, tortures and other commonly held gripes were extremely rare, in fact the Church was positively enlightened compared to secular leaders and their brutal and swift punishment for disobedience. Also let's not forget the huge efforts to preserve ancient documents and classics undertaken by monks which allowed their study in the modern world to begin with.

After this kind of shit I really don't know what to believe - Every credible historian seems to paint a wildly different picture of western Christendom than the one we're fed through the media. Is our whole narrative of the religious dark age misguided?