VLVL2 (1) Missed Communications: Beginnings

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Thu Jul 17 11:09:33 CDT 2003



Michael Joseph wrote:
> 
> Terrence, just to clarify - Eliade does not posit any specific theodicy.
> Your quotation unfortunately implies a Christian or monotheistic
> foundation to his writing, which most definitely is not there.

I don't think the quotation implies that at all. Eliade is talking about
religious man (what he terms "archaic cultures"). He's talking about
cosmic and sacred time and space and the annual repetition of the
creation myths. 


> 
> As for "The entelechy of the state . . .," Aristophanes would not agree.
> Would Terence?

What is your example from Aristophanes? And, can you provide another
example other than his?



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