tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204863782883637837.post6756502257900024923..comments2024-03-27T20:51:11.303-04:00Comments on Accepting Ignorance: Hypothetical Precise Definition of City-Castes?Alrenoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11119846531341190283noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204863782883637837.post-57890436644364279592011-11-14T18:06:45.121-05:002011-11-14T18:06:45.121-05:00I'm a lumper on this issue. It looks like reli...I'm a lumper on this issue. It looks like religion-themed scholarship to me.Alrenoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11119846531341190283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204863782883637837.post-40433013125574727152011-11-14T14:22:50.158-05:002011-11-14T14:22:50.158-05:00One more springs to mind:
The Byzantine caste hie...One more springs to mind:<br /><br />The Byzantine caste hierarchy is topped by the holiest individual.<br /><br />Jerusalem may be a better city to associate with religion, but Byzantium has a better adjective and a better empire associated with it, which was <a href="http://orthodoxinfo.com/general/history3.aspx#Byzantine%20Christianity" rel="nofollow">rather religious</a> according to the accounts, even after discounting for obvious hyperbole.<br /><i>"The whole city is full of it, the squares, the market places, the cross-roads, the alleyways; old-clothes men, money changers, food sellers: they are all busy arguing. If you ask someone to give you change, he philosophizes about the Begotten and the Unbegotten; if you inquire about the price of a loaf, you are told by way of reply that the Father is greater and the Son inferior; if you ask 'Is my bath ready?' the attendant answers that the Son was made out of nothing.'"</i>Eriknoreply@blogger.com