From: Scott R (jse885@spinn.net)
Date: Sun Aug 10 2003 - 00:13:06 BST
Platt,
> Those who believe intellect (logos, reason, thinking, the manipulation
> of symbols) suddenly emerged in ancient Greece may want to reconsider.
For the record, what I have been saying is not that the intellect suddenly
emerged around 500 BC, but that that is the time when intellect (to be more
precise I should say intellectual creativity) moved from appearing to come
from the outside (i.e. from the gods, and hence as reinforcing social
morals) to appearing to come from the inside (i.e., as being one's own
activity), and hence producing the S/O divide, and the idea of individual
autonomy, and the possibility of questioning social morals. Hence, until
this happened there was no real distinction between the social and
intellectual levels.
For evidence (to respond to Paul's objection), see the work of Julian
Jaynes, Owen Barfield, Bruno Snell, and no doubt many others. Or compare
Homer to Plato, or the pre-Upanishadic Vedas to the Upanishads.
- Scott
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