the 'blindness' of Love and Justice are very modern memes the blindness of Love was actually a medieval CRITIQUE of erotic love
You know that in the OT, "blinding" a judge is an idiom for bribing him? I suspect malarial/parasitic blindness was more common
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yes, i think the consensus in history is that blindness is a very negative trait and extremely debilitating
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which is why i think that the modern image is probably an unhealthy 'inversion'
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yes, well... even in the ancient world, the metaphor gains its force from how shocking, how contrarian it is
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The gist of the aftermath of the healing of blind is "You think healing that guy was hard? You're in worse shape than he is"
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--in Mesopotamia, whereas to the north blindness = extreme old age = wisdom, thus easier to idealize
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possible. well out of my field of knowledge tho.
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i don't have access to ivy league or european libraries and i have a job, i cannot research this sort of thing
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this is the kind of research i would do if i could. i can't attack warburg, panofsky et al because i would prob work similarly
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where else can one solve modern 'aesthetic' riddles by pouring over old legal, philosophical, theological, medical books?
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