Archeology and philology, developed in their modern forms by German Enlightenment, inherently reflect biases of enlightenment worldview, issue is not one of particular facts, but of understanding the ‘spirit’ of an age, which is much larger endeavor
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We are trapped in a worldview constructed by modern enlightenment and most take ideas for granted like the subjective spirit of an society or History without realizing these ideas ARE the modern enlightenment, not just tech tree advancements in the civ game of knowledge
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Okay, this is good to work with. This would be a quite faithful description of Nietzsche for ex - he uses unmistakably 18th/19th c framings like "the spirit of Homer," "the Dionysian drive of a people", drawn from Hegel Schop etc But is talk about a society w/in such a frame?
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Aristotle will cheerfully say "The Greeks are like this, the Europeans are like that, the Asiatics are such-and-such." So what are the sort of claims about Greek society, or the historical relationship b/w theirs and ours, that require Enl frame?
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(in former case we can be grateful to enl philology w/o being interested in it; in latter case, the opposite)
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