Scarabin Posted March 9, 2014 Report Share Posted March 9, 2014 As a westerner, I think we have a rich culture or heritage. I am not decrying other cultures but I am familiar with my own. But what are the main components of our heritage? Literature, pastimes, history, material wealth, religion, education, politics, manners and customs. I suppose they are all involved, but which are (most?) important? :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted March 9, 2014 Report Share Posted March 9, 2014 As a westerner, I think we have a rich culture or heritage. I am not decrying other cultures but I am familiar with my own. But what are the main components of our heritage? Literature, pastimes, history, material wealth, religion, education, politics, manners and customs. I suppose they are all involved, but which are (most?) important? :D Most importantPlatoAristostle They create a debate that does not end in 2014 A debate or philosophy that we discuss thousands of years later. I challenge posters to show a debate that does not discuss their points? I grant fully grant over the decades one side declares victory and then defeat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vampyr Posted March 9, 2014 Report Share Posted March 9, 2014 I had a culture taken. They said it was strep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrothgar Posted March 9, 2014 Report Share Posted March 9, 2014 Most importantPlatoAristostle They create a debate that does not end in 2014 A debate or philosophy that we discuss thousands of years later. I challenge posters to show a debate that does not discuss their points? I grant fully grant over the decades one side declares victory and then defeat It finally makes sense! Mike is a LaRouchie!I mean, I knew he was a complete nutjob, but the particular genus and species had long eluded me. "the entirety of the history of European culture from the third century A.D. has centered on an irreconcilable conflict between the republican heritage of Plato and the oligarchical heritage of Aristotle" (7) "All modern study of the universe, including mathematical physics, has been divided into two irreconcilable fundamental views. The Aristotelean outlook and its degenerate offshoot, nominalism or empiricism, has defined the universe as axiomatically composed of (...) particles (...). Opposed to this has been the contrary axiomatic view emanating from neo-Platonism ..." (8) "Through three millennia of recorded history to date, centered around the Mediterranean, the civilized world has been run by two, bitterly opposed elites, the one associated with the faction of Socrates and Plato, the other with the faction of Aristotle. During these thousands of years, until the developments of approximately 1784-1818 in Europe, both factions' inner elites maintained in some fashion an unbroken continuity of organization and knowledge through all of the political catastrophes which afflicted each of them in various times and locales." (1) http://laroucheplanet.info/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Cult.PlatoAristotle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrothgar Posted March 9, 2014 Report Share Posted March 9, 2014 As a more direct response to your question: While I agree that there is an exclusionary concept of Western culture, I don't think that it's defining characteristics remain constant over time. At one point in time, I think that Western culture was defined by the Catholic Church. Later, this was replaced by Enlightenment values. At the moment, I think that its defined by a crass consumerism and Hollywood media. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PassedOut Posted March 9, 2014 Report Share Posted March 9, 2014 It finally makes sense! Mike is a LaRouchie!I mean, I knew he was a complete nutjob, but the particular genus and species had long eluded me.http://laroucheplanet.info/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Cult.PlatoAristotleThat was helpful. I had wondered where the Plato/Aristotle talk was coming from. I did know where it could not be coming from... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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