>>13459356>They lived on a time of medical inneficiency,this doesnt matter for intelligence. medical treatment for gonorrhea isnt gonna increase your IQ
>bad nutrition, the upper classes got enough calories, and better nutrients than us
>and terrible educational systemwhat's the difference from today?
>But for a 100-120IQ educated man nowadays, his and most of the texts of the past, feels obvious and immediate, puerile, ridiculous even. Anyone who has 100IQ plus, has thought about things like "the thing in itself" and how it isn't really knowable; the division between sensory experience and mental apriori knowledge etc.the reason you've thought about this is because philosophy is "common knowledge" societally, and the reason it's common knowledge societally is because the ideas of the philosophers were good enough to permeate the cultural background radiation
also lol at using the most obvious philosophical questions, i bet you would be unable to comprehend complex theological debates - which despite their incorrect grounding are very sophisticated philosophically. why? because the basis of these debates isn't common knowledge anymore. but when they were, they seemed banal and obvious as well:
> If in this city you ask a shopkeeper for change, he will argue with you about whether the Son is begotten or unbegotten. If you inquire about the quality of bread, the baker will answer, 'The Father is greater, the Son is less.' And if you ask the bath attendant to draw your bath, he will tell you that the Son was created ex nihilo,