In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Erhan Ozalevli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > Hi all of you, > I want to sheare my problem with you, if you want... > When reading Virgil's work do you think the human nature has changed a >little over the years. Of course comparing with the people of Virgil's >stories.If yes or no, Why do you think so? > > Thanks for your interest... > > I am looking forward to hearing from you. > > ERHAN... A very large question. The trouble with saying 'yes' is that one will immediately be accused, if not of Marxist fantasy, then either of believing in some purported moral progress, Hitler and Stalin somehow notwithstanding, or of imagining some glorious golden age in which human passions were nobler or grander than they are now, which is to be laughed out of court on the spot. Nevertheless my instinct is to say yes, over time as well as place, since at other times and in other places we see people acting and reacting, not simply in ways we disapprove of, but in ways we cannot imagine. Of course if you reduce things enough to basic biological urges, community of nature is easy to discern; but that is not very interesting in the present context.
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