THE Turns out that at least the sequence of aristotle > aquinas > Smith > Blacks

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Turns out that at least the sequence of aristotle > aquinas > Smith > Blackstone is correct in that there is a universal at least via-negativa morality. But that without the christian ethic’s via positiva we might not have discovered how to integrate the lower classes and women into aristocratic civilization.
That positiva consists of only four rules, and those four rules solve the problem of high trust in a counter-intuitive manner.
Especially given that christianity is a personal religion more so than social or political – and it allows individual interpretation because it’s so imprecise that it doesn’t even state those four rules at any point or do so clearly.
So while it’s true that there is nothing in christianity that was not in european culture at the time, christianity accelerated the rate at which the underclasses could integrate into aristocratic civilization – not because they had positive merit, but becuase they would do fewer wrongs.
And that was enough.
Unfortunatley, the forcible imposition of that religion prevented the gradual continuation of the evolution of the greco-roman tradition into what we assume would have been sol invictus, preserving the arististocracy AND incorporating the underclasses, instead of developing the church as a hostile competitor to the aristocracy, the greco croman traditions of thought and literacy, and thte consequence was a dark age.
Because christianity as a personal religion is much more selfish than the pagan religions that were impersonal but political. Hence why christianity has such a hard time competing with judaism and islam both of which are political not personal religions.

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