[lit-ideas] Ideengeschichte: Literature as Grammar

Following Andreas Ramos's interests in 'history of ideas', I  propose:

literature  --  Lat.  literatura

tranlating             grammatikhe tekne (ars grammatica).

Cfr. Aristotle,

"It's  idion of man to be capable of grammar"

cfr. literacy. -- ability to read  and write letters.

half-literate: only reads/writes, but not  both.

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So since when did 'literature' attached a higher ring to  _things_?

CHALLENGE: and if literature is grammar, what is _Homer_?! (The man could
not _read_ or write).

Cheers,

J. L. Speranza
The Swimming-Pool  Library
Villa Speranza,  Bordighera

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IdeengeschichteGerman noun. The research into the history of ideas.  Ideas
don't fall from the sky. For example, the idea that God doesn't exist only
first occurred in the 18th century. It was made possible by the idea that
one  could prove that God existed and that only first happened in the 14th and
15th  century. Before that, no one thought to prove that God existed
because it was  obvious that he did exist. The Bible never considered whether he
existed nor did  it try to prove this. The Rationalists thought they were
doing a favor to  theology by proving his existence. This however brought his
very existence into  doubt, and thus shortly afterwards the entire matter
became irrelevant. Germans  research the centuries of history, politics,
literature, languages, philosophy,  and history to trace back the origins,
development, meaning, relations, and  impact of ideas.

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