[εις επαινον δοξης αυτου] New comment on Ideas Have Consequences, citation #1.
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That is precisely why I suggested at your blog that a definition of culture needs to be hammered out before the conversation can even begin. Otherwise we are trying to catch the wind in a fishnet.
"You cannot put on a new culture ready made. You must wait for the grass to grow to feed the sheep to give the wool out of which your new coat will be made. You must pass through many centuries of barbarism. We should not live to see the new culture, nor would our great-great-great-grandchildren: and if we did, not one of us would be happy in it."
[T. S. Eliot, Notes toward the Definition of Culture]
Posted by lilrabbi to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 9:02 PM
That is precisely why I suggested at your blog that a definition of culture needs to be hammered out before the conversation can even begin. Otherwise we are trying to catch the wind in a fishnet.
"You cannot put on a new culture ready made. You must wait for the grass to grow to feed the sheep to give the wool out of which your new coat will be made. You must pass through many centuries of barbarism. We should not live to see the new culture, nor would our great-great-great-grandchildren: and if we did, not one of us would be happy in it."
[T. S. Eliot, Notes toward the Definition of Culture]
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