the 'blindness' of Love and Justice are very modern memes the blindness of Love was actually a medieval CRITIQUE of erotic love
--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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