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Tag: Greek

  • Patriarchy

    Most people out there would misunderstand the word patriarchy. They take it to mean: fatherly-rule or “through rule of the son from the father”. In-fact more than 200 years ago they constructed a new word matriarchy to counter this “sexism”. This new word meant passing of rights through mother’s side. While societies have been greatly…

  • Telos is Greek for end. So nice.

    Sean has this lucidly written this article on our existential moorings .. “Why we move towards Future differently from Past eg is Thermodynamics and Arrow of Time”. What I picked up is though, two interesting cognates of Greek with Sanskrit. Telos is Greek for End. Well it is so for Sanskrit, (hence ILS, almost all…