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To: GPS Info who wrote (278436)

1/7/2024 4:45:48 PM

From: koan

Respond to of 356438

Sure it was a notable exception, as it is today :).

But they had thousands of great thinkers, and more than any other culture until modern times.

E.g. I call Plato the first existentialist for his writing:" The Allegory of the Cave, and his great work The Republic. He knew reality was a illusion to many.

The ideas of Plato, Socrates, Aristotle and many other Greeks were very sophisticated and birthed big ideas like ethics and democracy.

They were the first one's out of the egg of civilization so naturally there was a ton of primitive stuff as a back drop, although I don't think religion was a big deal with those guys.

They also had the first workable written language, which greatly facilitated their science and philosophy.

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The dominate quality of the Greek mind was its persistent effort to supplant myth to reason. Because whereas myths may change, reason remains the same...

I read half of Will and Ariel Durant's series The Story of Civilization (and I should make more of an effort to finish them). With all due respect to the Durants, I think the effort to supplant myth with reason was more of a notable exception rather than the rule. A lot of time and effort went into building temples for their long list of gods.

Wikipedia: Greek Temples