[lit-ideas] Re: The 'Near-Eastern' influences on the Greek philosophy, sc...

  • From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 07:32:22 -0700 (PDT)

Yes, Eric. The link is here:

http://www.friesian.com/greek.htm

--- Scribe1865@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Some argue that the Greek turn of thought was the
> transformation of mythic 
> thinking to philosophic thought. 

(snip)
>> *Myth allows for a multiplicity of explanations,
> where the explanations are 
> not logically exclusive (can contradict each other)
> and are often humorous. 
> 
> *Changed in Philosophy: The theories of the earliest
> Greeks philosophers, 
> especially those about whom we know the most, like
> Anaximander and Heraclitus, 
> are systematic and internally coherent.

(snip)
> *Myths are morally ambivalent. The gods and heroes
> do not always do what is 
> right or admirable, and mythic stories do not often
> have edifying moral lessons 
> to teach. 

If this analysis is accurate, one may wonder whether
the transformation of "mythical thought" into
"philosophical thought" was such a blessing.

O.K.

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