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Homer's model of human beings as creatures of empathy, imagination, and willingness to think.
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Homer's model of human beings as creatures of empathy, imagination, and willingness to think.
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The Iliad's perspective shifts, psychology, and metaphors together produce a theory of the human: to be human is to have empathy, imagination, and the willingness to think.
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"...perspectives all the time which creates empathy. Right? It talks about human psychology all the time and it uses metaphors which enables you to..."
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"...okay? What does that mean? It means that it's a theory of human progress. It's a theory of human progress about God. So even..."
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"...in The Origin of Species, right? He presents a new theory of human development that contradicts all Christian teaching, which is the idea of..."
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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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