[Bo] There are surely more S/O derivatives, Mind/body, mental/ corporeal, abstract/concrete and the said symbol/what's symbolized are obvious.
[Krimel] I would say the Greek contribution was more along the abstract/concrete continuum. They appreciated the contribution of mathematical idealization so much that it led them to devalue the actual messy world of the concrete. [Bo] One more subtle is nurture/nature but as we know, these two never agrees on who determines mankind, so it's typical S/O. [Krimel] Nature sets the range of possibility. Nurture provides that stage. [Bo] "Soul" was Greece's contribution to Judaism that constituted Christianity so soul/body is another dichotomy. [Krimel] Greek influence on Judaism at least insofar as it is expressed in the Jewish cannon is non-existence. The Jewish scriptures were all written prior to Alexander's spreading of Hellenism. The Jews heard the idea of a 'soul' from the Egyptians, Babylonians and Assyrians but they did not seem to make much of it. [Bo] SOM has had an enormous influence on Western philosophy by creating the problem (all western thinking are footnotes to Plato they say) and has coloured all "solutions". [Krimel] That bit of self serving hyperbola comes from the Platonist Whitehead. Neat guy and widely quoted but to be taken with a grain of salt. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
