And above all, see Owen Barfield, "Saving the Appearances: A Study in
Idolatry", who makes of this something more than a detail.
Or have I already mentioned this :)
- Scott
Thomas wrote:
>>Subjects and Objects existed in the time of Homer and Ancient Chinese
>>culture, but intellectual patterns still flourished. People were
>>individuated in name and many other culturally dominant ways, but
>>intellect could still deal and mediate them.
>>
>
> Small but fascinating detail: According to some scholars the ancient
> Greeks didn't have concepts for what we later called subject and
> object. Especially in Homer's writings these terms are apparently
> not found. This gives some extremely interesting perspectives for
> MOQ. See
>
> * R.B. Onians, The Origins of European Thought about the Body, the
> Mind, the Soul, the World, Time and Fate. Cambridge: CUP, 1988.
>
> * M.L. West, Early Greek Philosophy and the Orient. Oxford: OUP,
> 2001 (repr.)
>
> for Dutch readers:
>
> * Charles Vergeer, Eerste vragen. Over de Griekse filosofie. SUN, 1988
>
> yours
> Thomas
>
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