"Player"-Hamlet 3
By Steve
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Our modern concept of love is actually derived from the concept of Christ's love. We are to sacrifice our unpruned desires and loves for our love of God who sacrificed himself for us.
It will become evident that I am, many times, following the logic of Gregory Nagy, a Classics professor at Harvard. That does not mean though that my conclusions or thoughts are the same. I just mean that his understanding of culture and the method in which it is constructed to create a individual and political soul will somewhat coincide with mine. I believe, that despite his European demeanor, he is following an Anglo-American logic. Nor does it mean that he has a misanthropic view that I have.
The ancient Greeks, despite the high level of their civilization, did not really have a concept of personal love. Jewish civilization did personally love God until the Holocaust. That is understandable, but things do not come out of the blue either.
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