At the onset of every epochal shift in the West, there has been a sacrifice to mark the occasion. The archetypal “trial and martyrdom” of a prophetic individual to sanctify the infant cultural paradigm. One finds sacrifice to be a key component in creation myths and heroic journeys the world over, such as with Prometheus’ stealing of the fire and Wotan’s loss of his eye, but for my purposes here I will be focusing on prophets of concrete historical eras from Socrates onward. It is with him our inquiry begins.
On Sacrifice
On Sacrifice
On Sacrifice
At the onset of every epochal shift in the West, there has been a sacrifice to mark the occasion. The archetypal “trial and martyrdom” of a prophetic individual to sanctify the infant cultural paradigm. One finds sacrifice to be a key component in creation myths and heroic journeys the world over, such as with Prometheus’ stealing of the fire and Wotan’s loss of his eye, but for my purposes here I will be focusing on prophets of concrete historical eras from Socrates onward. It is with him our inquiry begins.