[lit-ideas] Re: SOS - Colin Morris and Taylor

"Lawrence Helm" writes:

: 
: Morris follows the last quote with, "This relative weakness of the sense of
: individuality is not confined to those societies which we normally call
: primitive.  The student of the Greek Fathers or of Hellenistic philosophy is
: likely to be made painfully aware of the difference between their
: starting-point and ours.  Our difficulty in understanding them is largely
: due to the fact that they had no equivalent to our concept 'person,' while
: their vocabulary was rich in words which express community of being, such as
: ousia, which in our usage can be translated only by the almost meaningless
: word 'substance.'  

Wasn't the classic Greek word for our concept of a person an "idiot"?

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Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
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