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- Nov 2023
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I feel there’s a mantle of importance laid upon ancient Roman and Greek philosophy simply because it’s old — if it lasted this long, it must be smart, right? It must be right. This… overlooks the conditions that led these works, written by generally wealthy and powerful men, to be the ones preserved and carried forward.
There likely were no works written by poor powerless people to preserve. Having the leisure to be literate and to write books required the wealth and power that also increased the likelihood of preservation, I rather suppose.
Then again there is a bias here, in terms of that what is preserved being seen as the entire record. Compare the start-up graveyard, where too we only see the survivors and those that 'exited' and never the ones that dropped by the wayside.
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