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Reddit mentions of All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age
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| Release date | January 2011 |
In retrospect there's a bit of hyperbole in what I've said. (hyperbole is so hot right now - Trump)
By 'internal world' I mean your inner thoughts. Think of your mum; that world. (is it really your mum in that world?). Introversion.
> Jesus changes the prohibition of all the outward actions mentioned in the Hebrew Law into the prohibition of the inner thoughts of those actions. Paul emphasizes what was later put down by Matthew, that “thoughts [of] murder, adultery, fornication, theft, perjury, slander— these all proceed from the heart; and these are the things that defile a man” (Matthew 15:19). In so doing, he switches private inner feelings in general from the margin of one’s life to one’s central concern.
That's a quote of a quote from All Things Shining, which was a reasonably interesting read. So while, at the time, people did have an 'internal world' it wasn't nearly as important as the 'external world'. Your outer actions were the only thing to be judged. god was outside, not inside like he is now in most western religions.
Personally I think that inner world has become more and more prevalent in the human experience as we've invented writing, literacy has become common, and now we have television, the internet and so on. I mean most of us communicate mostly by text now; words in our heads.
If you go back even further there was no concept of the inner world at all. At some point humans must have become what we now call 'self aware'. Prior that there was no 'self'.
A really cool, illustrative example of how differently humans have thought throughout time, how different cultures and morals and ethics and people's lives were, is that we didn't even have the concept of the colour blue until fairly recently.
/coffee rant! phew!
I'd like to add that Jesus (real or not) probably wasn't the only one coming to the same conclusions, he was just famous for voicing them. Not unlike Darwin and the theory of evolution; there were many people publishing the same at the same time.
tl;dr human thoughts evolve over time collectively. We are part of a collective consciousness that has a history.