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The lecture's opening problem is how the Greeks produced humanity's greatest civilization in roughly two hundred years despite not being dominant for long.
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Civilizational Creativity
The lecture's opening problem is how the Greeks produced humanity's greatest civilization in roughly two hundred years despite not being dominant for long.
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"And even today, there are many who consider Plato the greatest philosopher who ever lived. There are many people who read... The Republic by..."
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Greek civilization begins as a reversal: chaos, illiteracy, and poverty force the polis, the alphabet, and Homer, until poetry teaches a new human being how to see, feel, and think.
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