Just as the name "City Square" itself represents a kind of ancient Greek speculative spirit, the weakening of the fate of Hypatia is the decline of the ancient Greek spirit. Of course, in Rome, such spirit has long since weakened. From Alexander to the emperor During the six and a half centuries of Tandin, the solidarity of Roman society was secured neither by philosophy nor by ancient loyalty, but by force, and later by the force of the administration. Not by philosophy, but by the Roman army, Roman roads, Roman law, and Roman administration. In this powerful central authority, Roman philosophy never had a place.
In the movie, when Hypatia's line "I believe in philosophy" was ridiculed by the crowd, philosophy had come to an end. It was a long process, and these free thoughts and philosophical concepts did not disappear out of thin air. Russell analyzed it in this way, arguing that those ideas that were religiously colored gained importance, while those that were more rationalistic were discarded because they were no longer in line with the spirit of the times, and "the later pagans were In this way the Greek tradition has been codified so that it can finally be absorbed into the teachings of Christianity."
Hypatia was connected to a coming, centuries-long Christian world of high unity in the West, a The era when subjectivism was completely banned. At that time, divinity was far higher than human nature, and the individual's responsibility to God was far more important than his responsibility to himself and his country. And most importantly, the philosophical spirit represented by Hypatia became the phantom voice of the monophonic voice from the distant Holy See.
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