The Rosetta Soul (Words, Words, Words 26)
Young Heretics
Spencer Klavan
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
If a tree falls in the forest...does it make a sound? There's actually a great answer to that question, and Aristotle just tweeted it out way back when. Today, in response to a listener question, I finally lay it all on the line and tell you my nuts-and-bolts theory of translation, which is also a theory of the world. It's basically Aristotle, with some Thomas Aquinas mixed in: the mysteries of the soul are inscribed all over with the hieroglyphs of the body, and symbols are the rosetta stone that bridge between them.
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| 0:00.0 | And now a message from everybody's favorite Stadirite. |
| 0:04.5 | You guessed it, it's Aristotle! |
| 0:09.5 | Yeah, who, Aristotle, oh my gosh, I'm my babies, I love you! |
| 0:13.7 | Is that my babies most crowds react when people announce Aristotle? |
| 0:26.0 | What's wrong with the world these days? |
| 0:28.0 | Stadurai is not a dirty word. |
| 0:30.0 | It means from Stegiro, which is Aristotle's, hometown. |
| 0:34.9 | And they say Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, |
| 0:38.0 | but really the most wonderful time of the year |
| 0:39.8 | is any time somebody asks you a question that |
| 0:42.3 | enables you to embark upon a lengthy close reading of Aristotle's Day interpretation. |
| 0:47.0 | This was probably not how they sold it in the Coca-Cola commercials, but don't believe everything you hear on TV. It's a good day |
| 0:54.6 | friends. I have a question from Blaine that is a follow-up to another question that set us off on a |
| 1:01.3 | thing about prophecy and encryption and it's been a real journey but |
| 1:05.3 | Blaine had such a good follow-up question that I had to get there. You may remember |
| 1:09.8 | last time on words words, our Friday translation series, |
| 1:14.7 | I talked about the Rosetta Stone. |
| 1:16.6 | And that might have seemed like what they called |
| 1:18.2 | a bottle episode, which is to say, an episode |
| 1:21.0 | that doesn't relate to any of the other stuff in the series like on a TV show |
| 1:25.1 | when you just get one character and a little story that doesn't affect anything else. |
| 1:29.1 | But it was all an elaborate ruse because it was just to prepare the ground. |
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