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    1. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jul 31

      1. Why should you care about Heraclitus? This 1888 introduction to his work by GTW Patrick explains. You have to understand that Socrates & Plato were abnormal for Ancient Greek society. They were popular bc they were a novelty, and their thought didn’t catch on for 4 centuries.pic.twitter.com/E6wDItHK0h

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    2. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jul 31

      2. The Ancient Greeks saw beauty and morality as fused. Socrates (Patrick jokingly alludes to this elsewhere) was famously ugly, but he stressed moral beauty. He was, in fact, the first person to say it’s your “inner beauty” that counts.

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    3. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jul 31

      3. This was part of a pattern whereby Socrates & Plato (or Plato if Socrates is just his sock puppet) split everything: Platonic forms meant there was something “beyond” us, mind & body are separate, & morally it was our inner nature that counted.

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    4. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Aug 1

      4. This split led to the denigration of the body, and it inspired the Christians, Gnostics, and Stoics (only the Epicurians were unaffected). Indeed, there’s a sense in which the ressentiment of Christianity Nietzsche speaks of required Socrates. It’s built on Socrates.

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    5. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Aug 1

      5. And so we have people scourging their bodies in different sects. The body is evil. The “split thinking” of Socrates carried right through to Descartes (mind/body), Kant (noumena/phenom), and beyond. This is partly why we’re still perplexed by conciousness today.

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    6. Konstantin Velichkov‏ @Konstant_V Aug 1
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      Hmm... That the body is evil is a Gnostic error, according to Christianity, which asserts both the goodness of all created matter and it’s potential to be disordered b/c of the Fall. Scourging is meant to discipline the passions & bring them back in order—not to despise the body

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      Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Aug 1
      Replying to @Konstant_V

      This is the view expressed in the introduction. I agree that the Gnostics are the most extreme version this, but it does seem to be present in all of Christianity. “The last shall be first..” This principle negates Greek ethics, and leads us to despise the body beautiful.

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