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To: Sam who wrote (305545)	7/24/2016 3:34:05 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) of 542131

Regarding the development of an easy to use alphabet and functional written language by the ancient Greeks Ornstein and Burke write the following: "This new way of treating knowledge as an "artifact" would now further separate Axe Maker's from the rest, because it would make knowledge a new world in itself, to be cut up and segmented by specialists. This change in thought processes can be seen within a century in the rise to prominence of a way of looking at the world analytically, step-by-step, with the development of new Greek procedures for acquiring and analyzing knowledge which they called love of wisdom or "philosophy." Perhaps because they had this new ability externally to cut and control thought, early Greek intellectuals were largely free of the religious awe that had permeated most thinking until then. Philosophy, as we now know it, had begun to develop 100 years or so earlier, and for the first time in recorded history, questions were being asked about the nature of knowledge itself, about the practical aspects of the rule of law, and about the establishment of social conventions.

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