Europe and the Levant.  Aristotle influential in both but Arabic commentaries narrowed the focus of Aristotles Metaphysical and Political/Ethical writings. The rise of Islam on the basis of  the revelations and visions of one illiterate prophet did not appeal to those Western men schooled in Ancient Greek and critical Philosophy and used to a certain amount of secular freedom

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The Celtic Culture of slaves, Druids, Knights and romantic tales of the afterlife.Gnostic Immantism and "The Kingdom of God is not coming it is here, now and within you" Aristotles Influence counteracting supernaturalism. The cross of light and Johns conversation with God

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Alexander the Great installed a new European spirit in regions of the World beyond. He used  Aristotelian Golden Mean principles and oracular proclamations to do this. Relationship between religious and Literary Texts. Freudian analysis of religious discourse.

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The tumultous upheavals of the Persian Period: internationalisation, interracialisation. Cyrus the King of Kings and the  period of restoration. Eros is not a divinity but a means for man to live in friendly relations in a polis

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Oriental religion versus Ancient Greek Philosophy. The age of the new hero: Socrates, Plato and Aristote and the life of contremplation. The road of Zoraster and the corruption of the world. The Will and its decisions.

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The Displacement of the goddess tradition by the warrior gods and the elevation of the patriarchal society. The mission of Philosophy to stay neutral and transcend all forms of dialectical opposites through firstly hylomorphic theory and secondly, Kantian Critical Theory

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The Law of Moses and its factual legitimacy. Platos idea of Absolute transcendence versus Aristotles idea of immanent transcendence. Christian lamentation "Dust thou art and unto dust thou shallt return"

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The deep song of Mythology versus the deep song of Philosophy that perhaps began with the balanced temperate Ancient Greek Mythological spirit of sythesis rather than opposition. Psychoanalyst Otto Rank and the likeness of mythological thought to a neurotic day dream.

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Oriental v Occidental Mythology--The differing Garden plots. The role of Philosophy in the universalising of particular perspectives

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Concluding reflections, The Kantian Imperative and answer to the question "What can we Hope For?" The mythological appeal of Art and the Renaissance. Michelangelo and putting truth to work.

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