VLVL2 (1) Missed Communications: Beginnings

[Michael Joseph]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Terrance wrote:

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> Michael Joseph wrote:
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> > 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.
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> 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.
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Right, right, right. but "creator's hand" is not in Eliade's voice, and a
potentially misleading phrase.
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> > As for "The entelechy of the state . . .," Aristophanes would not agree.
> > Would Terence?
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> What is your example from Aristophanes? And, can you provide another
> example other than his?
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Pick any play you like - where is he not iconoclastic?

MIchael (wondering if we have misunderstood each other)


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