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Single Idea 14827
[filed under theme 29. Religion / A. Polytheistic Religion / 2. Greek Polytheism
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Full Idea
The Greeks did not see the Homeric gods above them as masters and themselves below them as servants, as did the Jews. They saw, as it were, only the reflection of the most successful specimens of their own caste - an ideal, not a contrast.
Gist of Idea
The Greeks saw the gods not as their masters, but as idealised versions of themselves
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human [1878], 114)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Human, All Too Human', ed/tr. Faber,Marion [Penguin 1994], p.85
The
13 ideas
with the same theme
[early Greek religion, centred on Zeus and others]:
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1742
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Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions
[Thales, by Diog. Laertius]
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15659
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Purifying yourself with blood is as crazy as using mud to wash off mud
[Heraclitus]
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1522
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It is wretched not to want to think clearly about the gods
[Empedocles]
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12097
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There are as many eternal unmovable substances as there are movements of the stars
[Aristotle]
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22729
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The concepts of gods arose from observing the soul, and the cosmos
[Aristotle, by Sext.Empiricus]
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9287
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Bruno said that ancient Egyptian magic was the true religion
[Bruno, by Yates]
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14827
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The Greeks saw the gods not as their masters, but as idealised versions of themselves
[Nietzsche]
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7208
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Paganism is a form of thanking and affirming life?
[Nietzsche]
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14864
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The Greeks lack a normative theology: each person has their own poetic view of things
[Nietzsche]
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7348
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The Jews sharply distinguish human and divine, but the Greeks pull them closer together
[Johnson,P]
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20666
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Most polytheist recognise one supreme power or law, behind the various gods
[Harari]
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20667
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Polytheism is open-minded, and rarely persecutes opponents
[Harari]
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20665
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Mythologies are usual contracts with the gods, exchanging devotion for control of nature
[Harari]
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