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To: Bilow who wrote (750993)	11/3/2013 11:06:19 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577883

I know you don't know what a liberal is and don't seem to want to learn. And you don't seem to know your history either. What you also don't seem to understand is the value of the Greeks. Of course they were destroyed. 99% of all their writings were destroyed and you will be hard pressed to find five people between the death of Christ and the 1700's that compared intellectually with any one of hundreds, thousands of ancient Greeks. No, it is you who does not understand history. I once wrote a paper comparing thinkers post ancient Greece with those of ancient Greece. I did not actually find any for over a 1,000 years. Actually longer than that. Great thinking which was common during the height of Athens around 400 BC was none existent until the age of enlightenment over 2000 years later. It was the level of thinking the ancient Greeks were operating at that you do not seem to appreciate. Will Durant and his wife spent their entire lives writing books on the history of civilization. You might want to ponder this! Will Durant, who wrote: "The History of Civilization": "The persistent effort to subordinate fancy to reason is the dominate quality of the Greek mind. Ergo Greek literature is modern or rather contemporary, we find it hard to understand Dante or Milton, but Euripides and Thucydides are kin to us mentally and belong to our age. This is because though myths may differ, reason remains the same, and the life of reason makes brothers of its lovers in all times and everywhere."