290 - John Vervaeke - How to See the End of the World
The Symbolic World
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The Importance of Inventing
I see in history moments when this breakdown and exile happens, and it seems like there's certain things that you can do when you're in that moment. Inventio is a Latin word, which means simultaneously to make and to discover. Dante integrated all the Roman myths with the Christian story into a kind of synthesis. It wasn't as much a break as some people want to represent it. And so I think that explains a little bit why, and when I look at how Christians did it...
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