24.1 A Value Judgment
24.2 The Suspension of Judgment
24.3 The Appropriation of Perceptions
24.4 The Limits of Authority
24.5 Consistencies and Structural Contrasts
24.1 A Value Judgment
In this chapter, and in the whole book, the author implicitly insists on the application of an -emic perspective in the analysis of ancient cultures. This topic is well discussed by G. Buccellati in his paper Buccellati 2006 Emic. A similar topic, i.e. that of empathy in reading the past, is presented by G. Buccellati in Buccellati 2014 Dalprofondo, pp. 71-72.
– [ Marco De Pietri, November 2020]
24.3 The Appropriation of Perceptions
Buber writes: «The might of karma or of the stars no longer controls inevitably the lot of man; many powers claim the mastery, but rightly considered most of our contemporaries believe in a mixture of them, just as the late Romans believed in a mixture of gods.» (p. 56) Buccellati also points out the polytheistic undercurrents in the ostensibly Christian West. See Buber 1937 Iandthou.
– [ Jonah Lynch, April 2020]
24.4 The Limits of Authority
On fate/destiny in ancient Mesopotamia, cf. supra 14.5.
– [ Marco De Pietri, November 2020]