/lit/ - Literature

>>17640072
It's not true. Historical development shows that consciousness began with the Greeks and our way of thinking differed radically before then. ,


However, esotericism is STILL worthy of study. The discovery of mind is not a consequence of divine action. It is a result of the use of language. It is the communal facility in language which provokes a recognition of something which is ‘there’ but not before it is named and connected to other names within the language. There is a book titled 'The Discovery of the Mind: In Greek Philosophy and Literature' that argues that the structure of Greek language was instrumental in developing scientific understanding of the world. Both developments involve language and profoundly affected later culture.

>>17640726

>>17640072
It's not true, but esotericism is STILL worthy of study. Historical development shows that consciousness began with the Greeks and our way of thinking differed radically before then