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“Whence is it that you found the truth, o, Plato? … I know your teachers, although you seek to conceal them: you learned geometry from the Egyptians, astronomy from the Babylonians, you received pious invocations from the Thracians; the Assyrians taught you a great deal. > 1/2
>And, to the extent the laws [you expound] are true and glorify God, you have benefited yourself from the Jews.”

—Clement of Alexandria, Protrepticus 2/2
Klement adds that Plato took up the doctrine of the immortal soul from Pythagoras, who in turn had appropriated this from the Egyptians.
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1/🧵Ok it's only 10:30 in the morning and 🤯🤯🤯
Do you astro folx (who were raised in one of the Western monotheistic traditions) remember Ba'al from your Sunday/Hebrew/Qur'an school stories?
The "bad" god in the story of prophet Elijah?>>>
2/🧵Guess who Ba'al was to the Phoenicians?
✨The constellation Orion. ✨
Yup.
And they observed Ba'al/Orion's movements in giant reflecting pools that were oriented to the directions of the equinox and solstices.
These pools are found in Phoenician temple complexes>
3/🧵all over the ancient Mediterranean, as the Phoenicians were skilled sea-farers/traders.

I had known that the Phoenicians were amazing navigatiors (they got at least as far as the West coast of Africa and the British isles).
And I knew they worshipped Astarte/Venus>>>
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Cengiz Çakmak hocamızla (@cengizckmk) Felsefeye Giriş kapsamında yaptığımız #Pythagoras, #Ksenophanes ve #Herakleitos konulu yayını ekteki linkten 3 parça halinde izleyebilirsiniz. 3 saat süren dolu dolu bir ders oldu. Hocamıza teşekkür ederiz.
youtube.com/playlist?list=…
Böylece 3 yayın olarak planladığımız Felsefeye Giriş serisini tamamlamış olduk. Önceki iki yayını aşağıdaki linklerden izleyebilirsiniz.

1. Yayın: "Başlangıçlar ve Kökenler: Mitos, Epos, Logos" youtube.com/playlist?list=…

2. Yayın: Anaksimandros youtube.com/playlist?list=…
"Yok, ben podcastçiyim" diyenler için Spotify linki şudur:
open.spotify.com/episode/33MH9b…
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