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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > "worldview" that transcends religion and mythology</h1>
It can be said that any person living in the world will inevitably have his own views and opinions on the world in which he lives. Simply put, the views and opinions that these people have about the world they live in are what people often call "world views."
Worldview
Of course, the emergence of a worldview does not necessarily depend entirely on "seeing is believing" to achieve it, because people have clever minds and wonderful surprises and imaginations. Therefore, the initial state of the worldview of many ancient civilizations is mostly due to myths, legends or religious rituals.
However, if people's worldview is limited to myths and religions and stagnates, then the development of civilization is bound to encounter obstacles.
Myths and religions
Therefore, the worldview needs to more truly understand the world as a whole, which puts forward higher requirements for people's abstract thinking. Philosophical thinking began to germinate after the Greek worldview began to transcend the barriers between religion and mythology.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="26" > the mission of ancient Greek philosophers</h1>
The early philosophy of ancient Greece revolved mainly around the exploration of the laws and inevitability of everything in the universe. Therefore, on the road of exploring the inevitability of human destiny, the Greeks have always been tireless and indomitable.
Ancient Greek city-states
Although Greek citizens were already proud of their "freedom" as citizens as early as the time of the ancient Greek city-state democracy, in fact, the concept of "freedom" had not yet been formed at that time, and "freedom" really became a concept and existed after the advent of Christianity.
Unlike the myths or religions of many ancient civilizations, the ancient Greeks did not believe that Zeus, as the "king of the gods," was sufficient to rule over all things in the world, and even the gods had to obey the inevitability of fate. Zeus was helpless in the face of a dispute between the gods, which in turn led to a steady stream of wars among men. In the face of these wars on earth, Zeus still seemed powerless in the face of fate.
The famous philosopher Anaximander of the ancient Greek School of Miletus once pointed out:
Everything that already exists is generated by fate, and because of fate, it is destined to perish. Things also need to compensate each other for mutual damage and repay each other.
The ancient Greek philosopher Anaximander
Of course, although the ancient Greeks had the highest courtesy belief in fate and its inevitability, it is undeniable that they were not completely indifferent in the face of fate. Otherwise, they either repay their fate and run away passively, or they fight tenaciously. From the perspective of early ancient Greek philosophy alone, fate corresponds to the law of necessity, and the mission of early philosophy is the exploration of consistent laws and knowledge. Therefore, the philosophers of ancient Greece always regarded the knowledge of laws and the interpretation of fate as the supreme mission of philosophy.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="29" > curse of King Oedipus</h1>
In ancient Greece, there was a writer named Sophocles who created a famous tragedy that has survived to this day, called "King Oedipus", which is also the origin of the famous "Sphinx Mystery".
King Oedipus
Once, in distant ancient Greece, Oedipus's biological father, King Laios of Thebes, was invited to the city of Pissa, where he was warmly received by King Perops. However, Under the trend of greed, Laios abducted Pelopes's beautiful and lovely little son, Clasipus. Heartbroken, King Perops, who had lost his beloved son, asked the gods to punish Rayos, who had kidnapped his beloved son.
Later, Laios learned from the oracle that his future child, the later Oedipus, would grow up to kill his father and marry his mother. Thus, Oedipus was born under the terrible curse of atonement for his father's sins and suffered a lot.
Rayos ordered Oedipus to be abandoned in the wilderness, but the well-meaning servant, distraught at the poor little prince, sent him to a shepherd in the kingdom of Collins for adoption. Later, the childless king of Collins met Oedipus and took him as his son.
Oedipus, who mistakenly regarded King Collins as his biological father, grew up and inadvertently learned of a curse about himself. In order to avoid the curse of his adoptive father, he resolutely left Collins. On his wandering journey, Oedipus encounters a group of strangers who are bullied and killed them all in a fit of rage. But what he didn't know was that one of the people was his biological father, the elderly King Laios.
The Mystery of the Sphinx
Not long after, Oedipus met the Thebeid demon Sphinx, who was honored as king by answering the Sphinx puzzle and removing the banshee for the locals, winning the queen of the previous king, and giving birth to two children with him. But what Oedipus did not know was that the queen was actually his birth mother.
It can be said that from the moment of the curse, Oedipus's parents and himself adopted a seemingly "evasive" attitude in the face of fate.
However, in the eyes of the Greeks, the story of King Oedipus is not a story of complete powerlessness to fate, on the contrary, in the face of the curse of fate, they do not completely compromise, but in their own way deny bad luck, in the process of avoiding fate, composing a life of ups and downs.
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