--- Charles Brown <cbrown at michiganlegal.org> wrote:
> Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com--h.
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> I think Charles wants to condemn Western (whatever
> that means when talking about ancient Macedonia)
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> ^^^^
> Why does European/American
> philosophy trace its roots
> only to the Greeks ?
I don't know why you focus on philosophy, but since you ask, we don't. We also look to the Germans, the French, the Austrians, the Poles, and lots of medeivals from all over the place. Why not India or China or Japan? Well, fo far as I can make out from my limited reading, the Japanese and Chinese were not into what we call philosophy, the construction and critique of abstract arguments about topics not informed by the special sciences. The Indians, so far as I can tell, were, I don't know why we didn't connect with them. But it wasn't anti-dark-skin racism -- the most honored philosophers of the middle ages included many Arabs anf Africans (like St. Augustine). I don't see what this has to do with ALexander.
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> The idea is that the concept of imperialism today
> has roots in the
> imperialism of Alexander.
That is the most iidealistic in the bad sense anti-Marxist dumb-ass thing I have ever heard from you. You think he was the first conueror? You think he was Western? A concept that would have been totally incomprehensible to him. He was the Greak King of Persia; He belongs to the history of the Near East, Central Asia, and North Africa. And he has nothing whatsoever to do with imperilaist, the highest stage of capitalism, in any Marxist sense.
jks
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