The devil is in the details! Great essay on the history of philosophy and the philosophy of history! 😊
Once again, old neurons firing. I recall in an undergraduate humanities/philosophy class the theories of history. I never came to a conclusion on them except, perhaps, there’s all of them to certain degrees. (The divine providence is personal, in my opinion.) I couldn’t remember them all, but Google 🙄😊 presented these:
1.Random
2.Great Man (Thomas Carlyle)
3.Great Forces
4.Divine Providence
(I think one is missing.)
The NYU adjunct was a Marxist-Leninist and was summarily dismissed after asking me to form a communist party on campus.😬 Nevertheless, he dismissed all these theories as ridiculous except for whatever Marx believed. I don’t know which one that was. I do recall the four phases and structures of society he said, though: 1) primitive communalism; 2) slavery; 3) feudalism; 4) and capitalism. 😊🤷🏻♂️
Interesting. I had never thought of Athens' demise in two discrete steps.
Are there two cities called Tarsus? Tarsus (Mersin) is close to Aleppo in Syria - that doesn't feel like western Turkey and is more in the far SE corner of Asia Minor.
The devil is in the details! Great essay on the history of philosophy and the philosophy of history! 😊
Once again, old neurons firing. I recall in an undergraduate humanities/philosophy class the theories of history. I never came to a conclusion on them except, perhaps, there’s all of them to certain degrees. (The divine providence is personal, in my opinion.) I couldn’t remember them all, but Google 🙄😊 presented these:
1.Random
2.Great Man (Thomas Carlyle)
3.Great Forces
4.Divine Providence
(I think one is missing.)
The NYU adjunct was a Marxist-Leninist and was summarily dismissed after asking me to form a communist party on campus.😬 Nevertheless, he dismissed all these theories as ridiculous except for whatever Marx believed. I don’t know which one that was. I do recall the four phases and structures of society he said, though: 1) primitive communalism; 2) slavery; 3) feudalism; 4) and capitalism. 😊🤷🏻♂️
Interesting. I had never thought of Athens' demise in two discrete steps.
Are there two cities called Tarsus? Tarsus (Mersin) is close to Aleppo in Syria - that doesn't feel like western Turkey and is more in the far SE corner of Asia Minor.