I'm rusty on Plato, so thanks for laying out the Plato<---->Aristotle relationship :)
On practices, secrets, and surviving texts... that makes sense. We have our own version of that: you can learn a lot about Orthodoxy through its writings, but you'll always be missing a significant piece of the thing if you don't go to her services, or engage in her religious practices. What gets written down is, by nature, limited to what is accessible to the intellect. And a lot of it just isn't. Words explain. Praxis shapes the heart.
I am not trying to let men off the hook there ;) But I do think that any time you are dealing with a thing that is typically gendered, you are likely dealing with half of something, which does not, cannot, and should not function in isolation... and where perhaps unhealthy and misshapen things result from the attempt, like homunculi.
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Date: 2024-07-07 07:40 pm (UTC)On practices, secrets, and surviving texts... that makes sense. We have our own version of that: you can learn a lot about Orthodoxy through its writings, but you'll always be missing a significant piece of the thing if you don't go to her services, or engage in her religious practices. What gets written down is, by nature, limited to what is accessible to the intellect. And a lot of it just isn't. Words explain. Praxis shapes the heart.
I am not trying to let men off the hook there ;) But I do think that any time you are dealing with a thing that is typically gendered, you are likely dealing with half of something, which does not, cannot, and should not function in isolation... and where perhaps unhealthy and misshapen things result from the attempt, like homunculi.