Western philosophy has been at war with The Odyssey for…
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Western philosophy has been at war with The Odyssey for 2,800 years -- and keeps losing. A survey, from Xenophanes to Levinas.
Plato tried to ban it, Aristotle rehabilitated it, Dante damned its hero, Nietzsche weaponised it, and Levinas put it on trial. The Odyssey has outlasted every philosopher who fought it. This video surveys the battlefied and the question driving it: whether reason saves us or deforms us.
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Plato tried to ban it, Aristotle rehabilitated it, Dante damned its hero, Nietzsche weaponised it, and Levinas put it on trial. The Odyssey has outlasted every philosopher who fought it. This video surveys the battlefied and the question driving it: whether reason saves us or deforms us.
#science
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