How does brecht depict galileo's confrontation with roman catholic church?
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Brecht focuses on Galileo’s desire to write in the “language of the people” and in order to make his scientific discoveries accessible to the common people. He believes that knowledge should not be “owned” by the authorities and should be available to all those who are curious about their environment. Galileo believes that reason must triumph which will be the ultimate “victory of people”. Even the peasants must be “prepared to reason”. “Unless they get moving and learn how to think, they will find even the finest irrigation systems won’t help them.”
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Galileo declared: “Of all the hatreds, none is greater than that of ignorance against knowledge”. “I believe in reason’s gentle tyranny over people.” “Nobody who isn’t dead can fail to be convinced by proof”.
In his play, Like of Galileo Bertolt Brecht depicts Galileo Galilei’s confrontation with the Roman Catholic church during the 16th century. At stake, was the doctrine of the Scriptures that deemed the Earth at the centre of the universe; the Sun was in motion. The Church eventually censored the significant milestone work of Nicolaus Copernicus whose naked-eye astronomical studies led him to the theory of the heliocentric model, in which the Earth orbits the Sun. Published in 1543 shortly before his death, his book, The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, laid the foundations of modern astronomy and led to Galileo’s trial and persecution in 1616.
Copernicus had noticed that the stars and the planets moved in such a way that the Earth could not possibly lie at the centre of the universe or “heavenly spheres”. His theories contradicted Aristotle’s concept of the Unmoved Mover (that no movement was possible unless initiated by an unseen hand), which complemented the Christian theological view that God created the world and guided all actions. Thus any attack on Aristotle’s science was also an attack upon Christianity.
