Greek Intellect and the Vision of Human Opportunity
The Greeks’ prodigious boldness and energy of intellect vastly extended the vision of human opportunity. In Who Killed Homer?, Hansen and Heath write:
The internet, and the whole electronic revolution, is merely a logical cultural consequence of the Greeks’ legacy of open inquiry, self-criticism, anti-aristocratic thought, free expression and commerce, and their faith in disinterested reason and science, immune from the edicts of general, priest, and king.
They add:
Strange it is, then, that the Greeks who started it all off are so little known in modern America.
And I add that it is stranger still that we treat what was most important to the Greeks—their religion—as if it were a collection of fairy tales, when in fact it is one side of our own spiritual history.
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