https://www.purposivedrift.net/2007/11/03/the_greeks_had/ Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:06:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.7 https://www.purposivedrift.net/2007/11/03/the_greeks_had/#comment-27 Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:17:12 +0000 http://drift.allseeing-i.com/2007/11/03/the_greeks_had/#comment-27 Was listening to a radio piece the other day from CBC on how the classics. The author was talking about how the division in the west between spiritual inquiry and science began with Plato and Aristotle, with PLato of course putting much stock in the internal and the ideal and Aristotle preoccupied with the external and obervable and manifest.
Many of the words that you would naturally be drawn to are words that Plato would have used as well. And so Kairos, Chaos, Phenomena, etc. You might have a field day with Plato, the Oxford English Dictionary and your inquiry.
For what it’s worth, I happen to think that the English words that come from Greek are the ones I am most at home with, followed by the Latin and the Germanic ones. So for example, I am less and less interested in calling myself a facilitator. My Danish friends who started the KaosPilots business school are more to my liking!

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