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Originally Posted by kennyc
And according to Wikipedia (again) hospitals seem to have originated more from inns/hostels than something put together in the sense of today's hospitals:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital
Seems little to do with church/religion in origin according to that entry. |
No, it apperars that the majoity agrees that most hospitals and centers of education are founded in, or created by, religions. I'm only going by the links provided by the majority.
Graham -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalanda
"According to historians, Nalanda flourished between the reign of the Gupta king Śakrāditya (also known as Kumāragupta, reigned 415-55) and 1197 CE, supported by patronage from Buddhist emperors like Harsha as well as later emperors from the Pala Empire."
and Taxila -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxila
"It dates back to the Gandhara period and contains the ruins of the Gandhāran city of Takṣaśilā which was an important Hindu and Buddhist centre."
Kenny -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital
"In ancient cultures, religion and medicine were linked. The earliest documented institutions aiming to provide cures were Egyptian temples."
ardeegee -
The Academy (See TGS post #301) (The Neo
platonic Academy of Late Antiquity)
"In the Timaeus, perhaps his most influential contribution to the dialogue between science and religion, Plato extends this account to general cosmology, explaining the design in the visible world by referring to a divine craftworker who fashioned the whole (by referring to Formal reality, of course) and insured its proper function by making it a living thing with a soul. Plato begins the tradition of perfect-being theology, which argues that God must be perfect, hence good, unchanging, eternal, and so on." http://www.enotes.com/science-religi...clopedia/plato