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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Replying to @KANTBOT20K @Thesokorus and
which biases, spell out what theso (and to a lesser extent myself) question is whether previous generations are merely causal precondition of later view or provide necessary context to understand (some element of) later view
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Replying to @KANTBOT20K @QuasLacrimas and
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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Replying to @KANTBOT20K @Thesokorus and
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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