The Reader Over Your Shoulder by Robert Graves & Alan Hodge

Author:Robert Graves & Alan Hodge
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: RosettaBooks, LLC
Published: 1943-03-02T16:00:00+00:00

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‘In a game of deciding which age showed the more civilized intelligence, with originality as trumps, it would be easy to play out a hand of Renaissance philosophers against one of mediaeval philosophers, and win every trick. Moreover, one could score almost as heavily against a hand of Classical Romans. [Or, more soberly: It takes little skill to prove that the Renaissance philosophers were of a far more civilized intelligence than their mediaeval predecessors. Moreover, since civilized intelligence implies originality of thought, they can also be shown to have outshone the Classical Romans.]

Students who trouble to examine the reconciliations of rival philosophical systems attempted by the Medicean Platonists will find that all of them, though playful and highly verbose—suggesting huge, prettily quilted goose-down coverlets—reveal a certain groping instinct for the truth; whereas most Classical Roman philosophers of all schools had been content always to restate the same threadbare, often fallacious, platitudes with the complacent air of men discharging a cumbrous moral obligation. Even the exceptionally gifted Lucretius was less concerned with thinking for himself than with transcribing Epicurean doctrine into Latin hexameter verse.’

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