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For the Greeks spirituality and rationality, muthos (mythos) and logos, could coexist without conflict.166 That muthoi could be ‘frozen in written form and interpreted to make statements of “truth” (logoi)’ was alien to the Greeks.
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The abstraction of thought in writing can kill thought if allowed to. i.e. Rock vs water, the good as adaptive processes and evil as an excess of order or chaos.
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
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