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Shuvadip Das posted an Question
December 16, 2020 • 01:13 am 30 points
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What is 'Hellenism' and 'Hebraism' ? Discuss with an example.

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    The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience.

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    Matthew Arnold in Culture and Anarchy describes Hebraism and Hellenism as the "two points of influence [between which] moves our world." Arnold was not speaking as an expert in Judeo-Christian or Greek studies; he used the terms pragmatically, flexibly, to denote both a dual historical heritage and two complementary states of being (strictness of conscience and spontaneity of consciousness, respectively) that had practical bearing in a newly industrial and democratic world. An educator by profession, and one deeply influenced by what he perceived as France's superiority in educational and social matters, Arnold initially argued on behalf of the Hellenic, or critical, spirit: the ability to see things freely and objectively, without religious or political bias. But he never divorced the Hellenic stress on knowing from the Hebraic emphasis on conduct. As a disciple of Socrates, he invoked that master's belief in the "interdependence of virtue and knowledge.". taken from a JSTOR article

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