10-16-2019, 05:59 AM
(10-13-2019, 03:49 PM)sbarrera Wrote: Now the Greeks did have their prophetic idealists - Plato, Pythagoras - though they may not have been ceramicists. And the Israelites had their civic heroes - Moses led the people to the promised land but Joshua conquered it.
Surely, but the Civic mindset dominated Greece and Rome while the Prophetic dominated Israel. The Israelites never idolized Joshua the way they idolized Abraham and Moses. Some Greeks worshipped Plato and called him divine, but he did not have the following Homer's warriors had.
What about other cultural areas? The Far East, India, pre-Columbian Mexico. Do you think they were more prophetic or civic? I've read Confucius and he seems civic, but couldn't Taoism and Buddhism be the prophetic wing? They had a lot of appeal to hippies after all.