I've read The Name of the Rose myself, but even after Googling the references I came out empty handed, and I still don't know what he was pertaining to...Q: (Atriedes) Did Caesar have a purse?
(L) Did he have a what? Did Caesar have a purse?
(Atriedes) Name of the Rose? Never mind...
Laura said:(Perceval) Did Caesar himself ever kill anyone?
A: Many, certainly.
Q: (Perceval) So, is there some kind of balance in the sense of, given the times around then being a very war-like time, with a lot of fighting and death going on in general... some kind of a Great Soul at the time coming down and... It doesn't necessarily have to be a peacemaker kissing people's feet like Jesus, right? But maybe there's some... what we would understand as a prohibition of killing other people as kind of being "spiritually evolved", let's say...
A: That idea is for the most part an exaggerated human philosophical construct.
Q: (L) So the idea that...
(Perceval) That to be good, thou shalt not kill...
(Atriedes) But which religion does that come from? The most killingest religion on the planet!
(Perceval) It does seem to... Killing another human being for a normal human being does seem to be quite a traumatic thing.
(Atriedes) It's socially inculcated.
(Perceval) I doubt it. I mean, for soldiers, they come back with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, they're trained to kill, and they want to kill themselves afterwards, ya know? They can't handle the fact that they...
(Pierre) Maybe the difference is that Caesar was aware of the very fundamental reason why he was killing...
A: Caesar intended to eliminate or vastly reduce killing. He knew what he was up against.
Alana said:And taking the C's answers (bolded) about the subject into account, it seems to be about who is being killed and the context/purpose behind the act, applying the law of three as a factor. I mean, look at our today world with its overabundance of psychopaths and followers! We need more Odysseuses and Caesars around!
In a 1976 study anthropologist Jane M. Murphy, then at Harvard University, found that an isolated group of Yupik-speaking Inuits near the Bering Strait had a term (kunlangeta) they used to describe “a man who … repeatedly lies and cheats and steals things and … takes sexual advantage of many women—someone who does not pay attention to reprimands and who is always being brought to the elders for punishment.” When Murphy asked an Inuit what the group would typically do with a kunlangeta, he replied, “Somebody would have pushed him off the ice when nobody else was looking.”
:D :D :DLost Spirit said:Mind. Blown. Wow. A conversation with JC himself.
I just hope "stoic philosopher of local fame" wasn't named Brian :)