Oh yeah? Well I have been to Legoland and I can tell you that there isn't
anything all that meaningful about Legos. I mean they are cool and fun to
play with and you can build some really nifty stuff with them,...but as a
basis for an entire philosophical system?
Steve
--- Chris Lees <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> A very interesting letter John. If I recall right, the english word
> Logos has several
> meanings. In fact, it's quite a complicated set of nested meanings,
> and difficult to
> untangle. Can you throw any light on the word logos as it is used by
> Heraclitus, by
> other Greek philosophers , and then in the Gospels ("In the beginning
> was the Word,
> and the word was made flesh " or somesuch), where i think 'Word' is the
> english
> translation of greek 'Logos', isn't it ? And the the logos is Christ,
> - the introduction
> of God/the principle of life/the intellectual faculty into the
> material world, or maybe
> that primary principle as manifest in each individual.
>
> I think that there is another interesting tale from roughly the
> period we are considering,
> and that is the Epic of Gigamesh, which relates a tension between
> wilderness and the
> first cities. Enkidu, a hero of the story, can be seen as symbolising
> the life of the
> hunter/gatherer and the principle of human wildness. Enkidu is
> seduced and corrupted
> by the temptations and illusions of civilisation.
>
> C.L.
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