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<p>[QUOTE="Herberto, post: 2785507, member: 74222"]Expecting the Christian scholars to use energy and ink in preserving subversive thoughts/materials is not quite logical. Pagan scholars surely neither would use energy and ink in preserving works that attacked their morale.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, you have misunderstood my point about Justinian I think as it was not what I was saying.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was of course wrong what Justinian did with today’s eye without doubt. But we have to see what the contemporary ethical context it was doing in. Suppressing subversive thoughts or the concept of censorships already existed back during the time of Plato, so it was not like Justinian did something Pagan emperors did not do.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Herberto, post: 2785507, member: 74222"]Expecting the Christian scholars to use energy and ink in preserving subversive thoughts/materials is not quite logical. Pagan scholars surely neither would use energy and ink in preserving works that attacked their morale. Anyway, you have misunderstood my point about Justinian I think as it was not what I was saying. It was of course wrong what Justinian did with today’s eye without doubt. But we have to see what the contemporary ethical context it was doing in. Suppressing subversive thoughts or the concept of censorships already existed back during the time of Plato, so it was not like Justinian did something Pagan emperors did not do.[/QUOTE]
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