Generations of dumbing down, each succeeding representation less capable than its predecessor and mentoring still another that’ll prove even more lacking. Maybe it’s just as well the sperm count dies out…
I need to read once more this fine book entitled Rewriting the History of Ancient Greek Philosophy. Mass man then and now.
This book examines what we can reliably know about Plato and the historical Socrates. It shows how pervasively the sources of information were biased by Pythagoreanism, Platonism, and Neoplatonism. It gives a source-critical account of how the climate of opinion in fourth-century Athens was captured by the Pythagoreans and how Speusippos's Academy also came to be pythagorized—adding definitional idealism to Pythagorean number idealism, and elevating Plato to a divine level that makes him into a coequal of Pythagoras, thus capturing Plato for Pythagoreanism. By showing how Plato's dialogues were dedramatized, dedialogized, and read or understood as if they were works expounding pythagorizing doctrine, Tejera has created a provocative reappraisal for scholars of ancient Greek philosophy.
Pythagorus was from Samos if I remember correctly. Marathon on Samos is much closer to the 42.195km from Vathy the main town of Samos than Marathon in Attica is from Athens. And if I was to make that V of Vathy a Greek letter and change it's position from front to back (pig latin) then I (basically) have Athens.
Great links and extremely important topic. I have given up hope on reaching so many. Yet IMO it’s fundamentally important to our salvation. It’s rather ironic I suppose.
Personally a couple years before Covid I was in a pretty deep funk and started re-reading the Russian philosopher Berdyaev. I read him first after discovering a title on the bottom shelf on a friend's bookcase whom I helped move to North Carolina. I downloaded a few titles and read him avidly and bought with that Covid money for the unintentionally unemployed the other titles I could not download. So lately I turned to French writers from the same epoch. Marcel, Ellul having read Camus and some of Sartre. Briefly the best answer for our situation is Transcendence. https://youtu.be/VIIbT89V7EI
Generations of dumbing down, each succeeding representation less capable than its predecessor and mentoring still another that’ll prove even more lacking. Maybe it’s just as well the sperm count dies out…
I need to read once more this fine book entitled Rewriting the History of Ancient Greek Philosophy. Mass man then and now.
This book examines what we can reliably know about Plato and the historical Socrates. It shows how pervasively the sources of information were biased by Pythagoreanism, Platonism, and Neoplatonism. It gives a source-critical account of how the climate of opinion in fourth-century Athens was captured by the Pythagoreans and how Speusippos's Academy also came to be pythagorized—adding definitional idealism to Pythagorean number idealism, and elevating Plato to a divine level that makes him into a coequal of Pythagoras, thus capturing Plato for Pythagoreanism. By showing how Plato's dialogues were dedramatized, dedialogized, and read or understood as if they were works expounding pythagorizing doctrine, Tejera has created a provocative reappraisal for scholars of ancient Greek philosophy.
Pythagorus was from Samos if I remember correctly. Marathon on Samos is much closer to the 42.195km from Vathy the main town of Samos than Marathon in Attica is from Athens. And if I was to make that V of Vathy a Greek letter and change it's position from front to back (pig latin) then I (basically) have Athens.
As Henry Ford said, history is bunk.
Pythagorus ended up in Libya, then known as Cyrene. Serene.
Great links and extremely important topic. I have given up hope on reaching so many. Yet IMO it’s fundamentally important to our salvation. It’s rather ironic I suppose.
Personally a couple years before Covid I was in a pretty deep funk and started re-reading the Russian philosopher Berdyaev. I read him first after discovering a title on the bottom shelf on a friend's bookcase whom I helped move to North Carolina. I downloaded a few titles and read him avidly and bought with that Covid money for the unintentionally unemployed the other titles I could not download. So lately I turned to French writers from the same epoch. Marcel, Ellul having read Camus and some of Sartre. Briefly the best answer for our situation is Transcendence. https://youtu.be/VIIbT89V7EI
Thank you…will most definitely watch and learn from. Intelligent thought should be what we seek. Glad I found you!