tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278009708992140259.post3799538354224323670..comments2019-11-18T06:53:52.326+08:00Comments on Something by Virtue of Nothing: Bearing Somethingane pixestoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01750266230259761680noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278009708992140259.post-44692376759861051192013-11-19T15:07:35.437+08:002013-11-19T15:07:35.437+08:00Much obliged! And oh those pesky / signs - I thoug...Much obliged! And oh those pesky / signs - I thought I had to add one in to the a href, but shall stop doing that. ane pixestoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01750266230259761680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278009708992140259.post-13820892432190392132013-11-19T07:33:04.482+08:002013-11-19T07:33:04.482+08:00The link didn't work (has a superfluous / at e...The link didn't work (has a superfluous / at end) but I found it. Interesting. I'll dig around some more, but for the moment, there's more about him on LTA - http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/search?q=asclepius <br /><br />Alternate spellings: Aesculapius, and Aesclepius.<br /><br />And: http://www.theoi.com/Cult/AsklepiosCult.html<br /><br />Tom Matrullohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11460789537848811061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278009708992140259.post-32229775699978804942013-11-19T07:11:59.529+08:002013-11-19T07:11:59.529+08:00P.S. Any further Asclepius links would be welcome,...P.S. Any further Asclepius links would be welcome, my brief internet foray did not reveal much. But at least I arrived at a satisfactory answer to the Asclepius riddle at the end of the <i>Phaedo</i> <a href="http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2004/09/last-words.html/" rel="nofollow">here</a> thanks to Michael Gilleland's LTA. The link contains a link to the sacrifices of Asclepius.ane pixestoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01750266230259761680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278009708992140259.post-67313133751049818632013-11-19T06:12:53.682+08:002013-11-19T06:12:53.682+08:00Very interesting. Thank you for the link; I tried ...Very interesting. Thank you for the link; I tried to look up Asclepius in some books I have, but just came up with the Hermetic work by that name, with little description of even that.<br /><br />As for the France Culture podcast, here's the best bit of the blurb, "pourquoi l’espèce humaine est-elle la seule, parmi les primates, à avoir inventé des symboles parlés ou écrits ? Deux concepts récents, celui de “théorie de l’esprit” – c’est-à-dire la capacité d’imaginer ce que pensent nos congénères- et celui d’”espace de travail conscient” –un réseau neuronal où les idées se recombinent en synthèses nouvelles pourraient contribuer à cerner la singularité culturelle de l’esprit humain" and <a href="http://plus.franceculture.fr/les-neurones-de-la-lecture-par-stanislas-dehaene/" rel="nofollow">the link</a>.ane pixestoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01750266230259761680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278009708992140259.post-43080349586061743812013-11-19T01:08:10.231+08:002013-11-19T01:08:10.231+08:00Fwiw: One reference I have to that about Asclepius...Fwiw: One reference I have to that about Asclepius: <br /><br />Now, despite the rumours concerning the death of Asclepius, he remained a living god, which shows that men know very little about life and death, and take both very lightly, often wasting the former and fearing the latter without properly investigating any of them.<br />Asclepius became the first and greatest of healers because he was the son of Apollo. For, it is said, the art of healing depends on divination, and it was after listening to his father's responses and oracles that he adapted different drugs to different diseases. Thus he taught his own sons and others the use of healing herbs, which to apply them to running wounds and which to dry wounds, and in what doses to administer drugs. But without the forecasts of prophetic wisdom, they say, he had never ventured to mingle with medicines, which are the most deadly of poisons.<br /><br />http://www.maicar.com/GML/Asclepius.html<br />Tom Matrullohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11460789537848811061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278009708992140259.post-29431114914992267602013-11-19T00:56:25.344+08:002013-11-19T00:56:25.344+08:00With regards to the first part of your comment, in...With regards to the first part of your comment, indeed... also re. theories on how meaning can be 'intuited, which gets really interesting in some theology - but you wrote nothing mystical... There was a video I meant to get back to on France Culture radio that's related, I will return to post the link when I find it later.<br /><br />Thanks for the mention of Asclepius, I look forward to reading up on that connection.ane pixestoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01750266230259761680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278009708992140259.post-66156709524459158542013-11-19T00:34:03.777+08:002013-11-19T00:34:03.777+08:00This summons many thoughts, responses, too many.. ...This summons many thoughts, responses, too many.. But one I have to put here, with reference to:<br /><br /><i>In the context of the hermeneutic reader's arc, where there is a circular movement between ideas and experience, our words are only as clear as we have got used to the feelings of words as they are applied to practical experience.</i><br /><br />Can we call "experience" the odd instantaneous apprehension of the meaning of a word - of really "getting" what it means, in an almost random moment of awareness? That is: not seeming to be the result of any immediate or just prior lived experience. Cognizing a word without seeming to re-cognize it - as if the meaning just was there. One can of course "explain" this as a surfacing of something formerly experienced (or read, if we align the act of hearing a story with the fact of experientiality); but at the time - and I think of a time when I was perhaps 8 or 9 - when this happened, I had no idea of how to account for it. Nothing magical or mystical, just a seemingly arbitrary coming into consciousness of a clear sense of a word's meaning. <br /><br />And: Aristotle's linking rhetoric to the absence of purely logical systems seems at least to me to be analogous to the positioning of the Asclepian arts to pure practical knowledge. Asclepius as the practitioner of an art whose first principles rest occluded with his father Apollo.Tom Matrullohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11460789537848811061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278009708992140259.post-16709405669960734122013-11-18T19:41:19.565+08:002013-11-18T19:41:19.565+08:00What a wonderful sentiment you added to this post....What a wonderful sentiment you added to this post. I agree that the importance in falling is in the getting up - and find the helping hand for the getting up in the sympathy of the coexistence of like-minded souls. Thank you for your comment.ane pixestoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01750266230259761680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278009708992140259.post-72140416222019792142013-11-18T17:50:18.323+08:002013-11-18T17:50:18.323+08:00'Wings get broken a lot, if not through Hercul...'Wings get broken a lot, if not through Herculean "temporary insanity."'<br /><br />That says a lot. What is important is that we fall and fly again. <br />Christy Amularhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14403312758174743447noreply@blogger.com