Guo Kang could not answer Brother Patrick's question.

He did learn some knowledge and had seen more of the world than these people, but the problem was that behind the monks was the whole of Greek philosophy.

And the so-called Greek philosophy is not only limited to Greece, but the theoretical achievements of the entire Mediterranean world. And, after the Hellenistic era, its influence spread over a vast area from Central Asia to Western Europe, and it is still being studied by Celestial and Cross theologians today.

As Patrick said, the Greeks had a very clear idea of this as early as the time of Hesiod. You know, at this time it was still the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the 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 whole philosophy.

Greek philosophy, on the other hand, had a great influence on monotheism. The foundation of theology is based on the theories of Plato and Aristotle. So the theology here has inherited these theories.

Since this tradition is very long, even if Guo Kang doubts it, it will definitely be useless. So many philosophers, who have been poor for 2,000 years, have used this kind of thinking, and the problems he can think of have long been thought of.

This phenomenon is common in all fields, and even has a great impact on the Purple Horde itself.

After the fall of the Empress Dowager Helena, scholars at that time, with the support and acquiescence of the nobles of the Khan's court, carried out a series of reflections. Many people have done a lot of research on why this phenomenon happens.

Among them, many scholars finally reached a consensus: Helena's power is very special. Strictly speaking, she is not a traditional Greek political noblewoman, but the first Seris-style empress dowager in the Roman Empire.

This historical positioning should have been her mother-in-law, the Empress Dowager Maria, but the Empress Dowager Maria's influence was limited and her reign was short, so the main research was almost all carried out on the Empress Dowager Helena.

The conclusions of this study have had a great impact on the private and official sectors, as well as on other countries in the Mediterranean. This has also led to some interesting results.

Every year when the Purple Horde held a grand court meeting, many local officials and vassal chiefs would attend. Every time Tuohuan's mother, Queen Anna, attended, everyone was called by a variety of names: the natives of Syria and the Latins called her Barcelissa; The Prairie Nayan called her Kedun; The Turkic chieftains of Asia Minor called her Karariche; Romanian officials called her Empress.

And if Queen Elizabeth appears, everyone will be called "Queen Mother" directly.

Because, in everyone's eyes, the queen mother of the Purple Horde is not the same as the mother of the monarchs of the previous countries. In the past, people used to refer to people as "widowed queen" and "queen with children". But these terms obviously do not accurately describe the situation in the Purple Horde. There is no more suitable equivalent in various languages.

Until now, whether it is a formal occasion or a folk discussion, everyone tends to directly use the Chinese pronunciation of "empress dowager" to refer to the empress dowagers of the Purple Horde. Including Guo Kang himself, when chatting with people, he directly said that Helena was the "Queen Mother".

And this phenomenon has naturally attracted in-depth thinking from scholars.

Among them, one of the most influential studies concluded that in the Greco-Roman civilization, the possessor of power was only the person of the father, and only the will of the father; In the Seris civilization, the father and mother exist at the same time, and the will of the parents also exists independently of each other and has an impact on the family members. This two-person organization is deeply embedded in the core of the Ceris civilization, which leads to these phenomena.

Before Guo Kang, he actually didn't understand their thoughts. He was taught in his previous life that the power of the mother over the son was also a manifestation of the power of the father in the Seris civilization, although the Greek philosophers did not agree with this at all.

These people have a much clearer understanding of patriarchy than he does, and they have a complete set of theological and philosophical theories to analyze and verify. Not to mention anything else, Guo Kang still can't understand these terms of several bodies, several genders and several aspirations. But the Greek scholars used it with great skill......

It may also be because they specialize in this area, so that what seems "similar" to others seems to the Greeks is so different and distinct that it cannot be regarded as the same kind at all.

To test this conclusion, philosophers have conducted a series of analyses. In the course of the research, a set of criteria was proposed, which became widely accepted: one only needs to observe whether there is a mother-child relationship that can exist independently, and it is possible to judge whether the object of observation is a single patriarchal society.

In Greece, for example, the result is obvious. Scholars have long believed that fathers are the true source of their children. As Aristotle parabled, the woman is the soil, and the seed is provided by the man. Of course, the plants that grow in the soil are only from the seeds sown by the father, and have nothing to do with the mother.

In this theoretical system, the mother and her child are not even very physically connected, because she is only a nanny who is borrowed, planted and nurtured embryos. This philosophical exposition, from the source, denies the relationship between mother and child, and naturally makes mother lack sufficient direct power over her children. Even if you have authority, you have to rely on your father.

After the division of Rome, philosophy did not disappear 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 provided the form of the child, and the mother provided the material of the child. For the child, the father is the active principle, while the mother is the passive, material principle. Although the father cannot directly give the soul to the child, the formal power provided by the father allows the child's body to accept the soul, so it occupies the main position and leadership position.

Like many other philosophical ideas, this view has been developed in later philosophies and theologies and has had an impact well into the future.

In theologians' view, the mother has no control over her children, because the soul comes from the Father, and it is the father who provides the bridge between the soul and the material world. Therefore, children are first and foremost the Father's people, and secondly, they are the derivation and supplement of the Father, and the Mother is the most basic substitute, and of course has no right to interfere with the property of others.

In this sense, the child appears to be born to the mother, but in a theological and philosophical sense, it is not actually born to the mother.

Many of the public cases faced by the church in later generations also came from this.

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