"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"? -- Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH EMAIL: junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://samsara.law.cwru.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html