Word: phaedrus
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...establishment of a paradise located in a new Jerusalem. In Greece the privileged dead gradually came to inhabit the Isles of the Blessed, later the Elysian fields, and in the 4th century B.C. Plato championed the concept of judgment after death in his Gorgias, and, in Phaedrus, postulated an immortal soul that strove ever upward after gaining its freedom from the flesh. What made Jesus' synthesis of these traditions new was the teaching that heavenly happiness consisted not of material pleasures, tribal triumph or an undifferentiated union with the cosmos, but of a glorious personal transformation in the flesh...
...Phaedrus argues that the forces of intellect, society, and biology try to maintain their current position and preserve their own survival. However, survival of a higher level takes precedence over that of a lower level...
...same, Lila fails as a serious philosophical argument. Phaedrus argues against other philosophers without presenting their ideas fairly. He attacks Darwinians for not defining "fittest" when they refer to the "survival of the fittest...
...Here, Phaedrus deconstructs the phrase without an appreciation of the larger theory. He assumes that Darwinism claims to predict the future. It doesn't. This is only one among several instances in which the narrator twists the ideas of others to fit his theory. The narrator consistantly employs this and other tactics to divert the discussion from the focal issues of the philosophies he refutes...
...Phaedrus isn't any more rigorous in developing his own system than he is in disproving those of others. Saying that the relationship between biology and society is like the relationship between parts of a computer is not enough. Explaining that they are dependent and independent of one another is saying much...