, in a brief spell, perhaps for the very first time, the very
&gt; &gt; things that we have believed all of our lives, without quite being
&gt; &gt; able to articulate them.
&gt; 
&gt; You seem to have just contradicted yourself;

I am simply arguing the lower bound side of a two-or-three-pronged argument,
as to why it might be worth reading the work of an ancient thinker that you
otherwise can but uncritically and irreflectively seek to trash, even under
what I see as the most conservative assumptions abou