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He casts the polis as a political revolution, the alphabet as a language revolution, and Homer as an intellectual revolution in how Greeks imagined the world.
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Intellectual Revolution
He casts the polis as a political revolution, the alphabet as a language revolution, and Homer as an intellectual revolution in how Greeks imagined the world.
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"...each other. And Homer was really an intellectual. It was an intellectual revolution. It forever transformed how Greeks saw and imagined the world around..."
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"...true God. And as I said last class, this marked an intellectual revolution in human history. And for monotheism, we developed three new ideas,..."
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"...four thinkers? Because they're the ones, each of them, who created intellectual revolution that finally changed the way we see ourselves and society. Okay?..."
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"...why I keep on emphasizing this, but monotheism is really an intellectual revolution first and foremost. Okay, so the Second Revolution happens, and what..."
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"...Renaissance? How did the Renaissance start? Because the Renaissance was an intellectual revolution in Europe that would ultimately change the fate of Europe. Okay,..."
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"...these various factors will coalesce into the Renaissance and mark an intellectual revolution in Europe, right? Now, the thing that you will remember about..."
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"...very clear. Okay? So in other words Islam is a major intellectual revolution in human history. And we have forgotten this because Islam the..."
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"...class, how the idea of the Godhead, it marks a major intellectual revolution in human history. It's the beginning of monotheism."
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"...the first monotheistic religion is Christianity. And monotheism actually marks an intellectual revolution in human history, and it really created the conditions for modernity,..."
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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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