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Galileo’s error was to commit us to a theory of nature which entailed that consciousness was essentially and inevitably mysterious. In other words, Galileo created the problem of consciousness.
“Numa forbade the Romans to revere an image of God which had the form of man or beast. Nor was there among them in this earlier time any painted or graven likeness of Deity, 8 but while for the first hundred and seventy years they were continually building temples and establishing sacred shrines, they made no statues in bodily form for them, convinced that it was impious to liken higher things to lower, and that it was impossible to apprehend Deity except by the intellect.”
― Complete Works of Plutarch
― Complete Works of Plutarch
“Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism.”
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“The real enforcer, and this is true for the entire Lycurgan system, was peer pressure.”
― Sparta At War: Strategy, Tactics and Campaigns, 550–362 BC
― Sparta At War: Strategy, Tactics and Campaigns, 550–362 BC
“Lycurgus was said to have been the guardian of an early Spartan king. Faced with civil strife and lawlessness, he created harmony among the Spartiates and made them into fierce warriors by establishing his laws and seeing that they were obeyed. In fact, no known ancient source for Lycurgus predates the fifth century, suggesting that the story of his lawgiving originated then.”
― Sparta At War: Strategy, Tactics and Campaigns, 550–362 BC
― Sparta At War: Strategy, Tactics and Campaigns, 550–362 BC
“It was for the most part by sacrifices, processions, and religious dances, which he himself appointed and conducted, and which mingled with their solemnity a diversion full of charm and a beneficent pleasure, that he won the people’s favour and tamed their fierce and warlike tempers. At times, also, by heralding to them vague terrors from the god, strange apparitions of divine beings and threatening voices, he would subdue and humble their minds by means of superstitious fears.”
― Complete Works of Plutarch
― Complete Works of Plutarch
Austin James’s 2025 Year in Books
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