[lit-ideas] "Resuscitate": different senses?
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 10:46:55 EDT
M. Chase writes (on behalf of Plato):
But this implies there is a converse
>path as well, this time from being-dead to being-alive; it's called
>"coming back to life" (*to anabi=F4skesthai*, 72a).
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I think Plato (and Socrates) are playing on the ambiguity of that Greek verb
(Eng. 'resuscitate'). This relates to the old polemic with Jesus. Some say
he never _died_ -- or else he could not have 'resuscitated'. The etym. is
sub-citare, 'under call' again. Hardly anything as absolute as what Plato and
Socrates are talking about.
Cheers,
JL
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