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Becoming a better or higher self because poetry changes how one sees, feels, and imagines the world.
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edification
Becoming a better or higher self because poetry changes how one sees, feels, and imagines the world.
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Ordinary Greeks paid poets for entertainment, for education in public speech, and for edification.
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Edification means becoming a better or higher self by having the way one sees, feels, and imagines the world changed.
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"Edification means to be a better you, to be a higher you. Okay? And edification, the way that Homer, accomplished edification, is by changing..."
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"We'll read the Bible. Okay? In China you have like the Romans of the Three Kingdoms. And all these literary works were designed to..."
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"...third reason, and what made Homer special, is what we call edification. Edification."
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"...people's sense of reality, OK? It should be about education and edification. And these people tend to be hated by contemporaries, OK? But, after..."
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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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