yeah no.
"The origin of the illusion expressed by Pascal is simply this: the people of the West -starting from the Renaissance- took to considering themselves exclusively as the heirs and carriers-on of Greco-Roman antiquity, and to misunderstanding or ignoring all the rest; that is what we call ‘the classical prejudice’.
The humanity that Pascal speaks of begins with the Greeks, continues with the Romans, and then there is a discontinuity in its existence corresponding to the Middle Ages, in which he can only see -like all the people of the 17th century- a period of sleep; then at last comes the Renaissance, that is, the awakening of this humanity, which -from then on- is to be composed of all the European peoples together.
It is a grotesque error, and one that indicates a strangely limited mental horizon, consisting -as it does- in taking the part for the whole. ”
Weatherall
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