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
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Akela frames the next issue as a spiritual and intellectual crisis among younger generations who show historically low institutional trust and may either awaken or collapse further into cynicism.
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"And guess what? They're not. And the establishment wants to remove that person. So I think there's a lot of splintering within both the..."
"Or will there be a sort of spiritual revolution or intellectual revolution?"
"...each other. And Homer was really an intellectual. It was an intellectual revolution. It forever transformed how Greeks saw and imagined the world around..."
"...really happened in human history before. So that was also an intellectual revolution. The third thing that is really important is the creation of..."
"...true God. And as I said last class, this marked an intellectual revolution in human history. And for monotheism, we developed three new ideas,..."
"...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?..."
"...why I keep on emphasizing this, but monotheism is really an intellectual revolution first and foremost. Okay, so the Second Revolution happens, and what..."
"...Renaissance? How did the Renaissance start? Because the Renaissance was an intellectual revolution in Europe that would ultimately change the fate of Europe. Okay,..."
"...these various factors will coalesce into the Renaissance and mark an intellectual revolution in Europe, right? Now, the thing that you will remember about..."
"...very clear. Okay? So in other words Islam is a major intellectual revolution in human history. And we have forgotten this because Islam the..."
"...class, how the idea of the Godhead, it marks a major intellectual revolution in human history. It's the beginning of monotheism."
"...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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