Molochian Gods & Gods in Greek Tragedy

#newsletter#toread https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysistrata

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agamemnon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oresteia

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl

The similarity is that children are sacrificed. Whether in Ginsburg’s poem it is to ‘capitalism’ ..

In greek tragedies, hard moral decisions must be made. To choose between one’s country or one’s child. How the actors make the decision is the study of decision making. Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Kant all thought about it, in their own ways. Unique ways. Kant, for example, was very rules and principles based. He thought feelings were secondary in decision making.