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A writing culture whose arguments must stand up to logical, disciplined, reflective reading.
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literate culture
A writing culture whose arguments must stand up to logical, disciplined, reflective reading.
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Greek alphabetic culture combined oral culture's emotional, innovative memory with literate culture's disciplined, focused, logical mind.
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"...than us. So, these are the three major advantages of oral culture. It's a very emotional language. It's very innovative. And it forces you..."
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"...All right? So, we are basically, before they were in oral culture, and that had certain advantages. Now we are in a literate culture..."
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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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