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My own curiosity, what did they view so different? While I have read a number of translated texts I was unfortunately never exposed to stark differences.
by infecto 3y ago
My own curiosity, what did they view so different? While I have read a number of translated texts I was unfortunately never exposed to stark differences.
- RandomLensman 3y agoTheir moral views were quite different from ours. For example, they would have trouble viewing depictions of something as "bad"/moraly corrupting (the corruption would be in the mind always, not in the picture which is passive), so our concepts there would be quite alien (thinking about the Late Roman Republic). Similar for violence in some areas - much more opportunitistic there (not quite the right word, they were kind of hard-nosed pragmatists in a way).