factcheck: true Germans were justly proud of speaking Greek as well as other educated Europeans spoke Latinhttps://twitter.com/bronzeagemantis/status/1046628265455226881 …
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But I’m not sure whether helpful to ignore an even earlier tradition of very important Dutch and English Greek scholarship (that didn’t end in the same place)
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Dutch (and to some extent, French) classicists became obsessed with reconstructing authentic Hellenistic philosophical texts
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However, the desire to prove these schools were relevant/true started to get in the way of actual scholarship (virtue of later German work was patience and curiosity)
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The English had some phenomenal philological talent c. 1550-1700; but most of it went into theology and related metaphysical issues: esp. revival of neoplatonism
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Far from being an obscure waste of time, neoplatonism was the basis for a century of English intellectual dominance in physics, psychology, and aesthetics
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any chance you can elaborate, and/or point me in the right direction for further reading?
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Shaftesbury’s Characteristicks is the hinge around which it all turns But reading about the Quarrel (for example, the Dissertation on Phalaris) is also good introduction to Brit philhellenism
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