[TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised

[akosela@andykosela.com (Andy Kosela)]

On Tuesday, March 20, 2018, A. P. Garcia <a.phillip.garcia at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mar 20, 2018 2:58 PM, "Tim Bradshaw" <tfb at tfeb.org> wrote:
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> This seems like an unduly complicated theory.  Maxwell had a good
> 19th-century Scottish gentleman's education (he knew great chunks of
> Paradise Lost by heart as a child) and he would have been far more familiar
> with classical literature than most scientists are today as a result.
> Chances are he knew what daemons were in mythology because he'd  read
> either the Greek originals or Latin translations at school & university.
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> Given that, he could also have read about them in Plato's Republic when he
> discusses the myth of Er at the end of the work.
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Exactly.  Plato also writes extensively on it in his other works, e.g.
Cratylus.  He is using the term 'daimones' and it could be best described
as the guardian angel of the Christians.  So there is a big difference
between evil demons (devils) of Christianity and the daimon of Socrates and
Plato.

--Andy
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