tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-432431864571392297.post6596767038682091309..comments2023-05-02T00:31:56.086-07:00Comments on Teegee: Essays: Half heard on FM last week: philotimia or what?teegeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12719991678290299753noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-432431864571392297.post-42711805506107854172010-09-22T13:22:13.546-07:002010-09-22T13:22:13.546-07:00P.S. In the preceding: embarrassing lexical error...P.S. In the preceding: embarrassing lexical error: it should be 'laid bare'.teegeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12719991678290299753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-432431864571392297.post-68502685376994774732010-09-21T14:38:14.098-07:002010-09-21T14:38:14.098-07:00Sir Thomas was WELL beyond the shame-based concept...Sir Thomas was WELL beyond the shame-based concepts of honor that Dodds described to help explain some of the behavior of Homeric heroes.<br />I hope no one thought that I would myself condone it.<br />I tried to write carefully, but among some of the least enlightened people even today, the ancient concepts are still alive and well. I sometimes think that, no matter how much people say that isn't why, some of them, not a few, cannot accept a president of the USA whose mother raised him alone and gave him also an Indonesian stepfather. When 60 years ago "South Pacific" lay bare Nurse Nellie's gut feelings about miscegenation and sharing a male with a woman of color, it was no exaggeration. And, yes, that was the crux of Southern prejudice (and it still is, and now former Southerners are all over the USA). And, as I'm sure Laura would agree, at the bottom of all this is also the male-dominated assumption that daughters and wives are property.<br />I hope I don't make anyone too angry by coming out and saying that.teegeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12719991678290299753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-432431864571392297.post-31447278186272090402010-09-21T11:23:25.021-07:002010-09-21T11:23:25.021-07:00Your distinction between shame and guilt is a perc...Your distinction between shame and guilt is a perceptive thought upon morality I'd not realized before. Sir T.B is reputed to have blushed frequently, what are we to make of that ?!Kevin Faulknerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15482886706239506749noreply@blogger.com