Is it just me or is anybody else also reminded of "The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral mind" while reading this ?
I have a hunch that ancient peoples could not conceive of a state of clinical depression. That comes along with the modern emphasis on "me" and "my goals" and "my desires"
As Soren Kierkegaard put it "Anxiety is the price of freedom"
Every time I am reminded of that book I become more and more convinced that humanities people are not fully sentient but are in fact advanced Markov chains.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 31.7 ms ] threadI have a hunch that ancient peoples could not conceive of a state of clinical depression. That comes along with the modern emphasis on "me" and "my goals" and "my desires"
As Soren Kierkegaard put it "Anxiety is the price of freedom"
http://rickroderick.org/105-hegel-and-modern-life-1990/
https://bernsteintapes.com/hegellist.html