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The Classics are important because of the Lindy rule. They've stood the test of time, in the elegance of their prose and the relevance of their lessons. https://twitter.com/david_perell/status/1287290901383938048
"Aren't the classics western-centric?"
Sure, but you're living in the West. Each civilisation has its own core curriculum of classics: Islamic, Sinic, Vedic, etc.
In our globalised world, synthesis is good. A grand list of classics of human civilisation. Expand, not cancel!
Sure, but you're living in the West. Each civilisation has its own core curriculum of classics: Islamic, Sinic, Vedic, etc.
In our globalised world, synthesis is good. A grand list of classics of human civilisation. Expand, not cancel!
Ultimately, this touches on another issue:
Language is the anchor of civilisation. By learning Greek or Arabic or Sanskrit, it's like learning a new computer programming language that has the wisdom and experiences of thousands of years of human history embedded in it.
Language is the anchor of civilisation. By learning Greek or Arabic or Sanskrit, it's like learning a new computer programming language that has the wisdom and experiences of thousands of years of human history embedded in it.
The classics act as arks for this knowledge. Losing our ability to read them in the language they were written in, and in which much of civilisation spoke in, means cutting ourselves off from history.
This is why language is the anchor of civilisation, and the classics are its arks. If we lose them, we are untethered.
Some may argue that's a good thing, but that's for a different debate.
Some may argue that's a good thing, but that's for a different debate.
