The Philosophers Chair » English http://thephilosopherschair.com ... Our views on philosophy Fri, 18 May 2012 14:40:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Why do we never question the modern english translations of ancient secular philosophers and historians? http://thephilosopherschair.com/2757-why-do-we-never-question-the-modern-english-translations-of-ancient-secular-philosophers-and-historians http://thephilosopherschair.com/2757-why-do-we-never-question-the-modern-english-translations-of-ancient-secular-philosophers-and-historians#comments Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:13:24 +0000 admin http://thephilosopherschair.com/2757-why-do-we-never-question-the-modern-english-translations-of-ancient-secular-philosophers-and-historians Question by Believer: Why do we never question the modern english translations of ancient secular philosophers and historians?
originally written in ancient Greek, Roman, Egyptian…etc. in the same way that we do ancient religious texts? Wouldn’t those translations be prone to the same errors? Wouldn’t those translators be influenced every bit as much by the biases and pressures of their “employers” as biblical translators are by theirs? So why do we never question it?
@Joss Whedon is my God now—And, yet, many of those same ancient texts are used to try and discredit the Bible. They should be subject to the same scrutiny, don’t you think?
@ More fed up then you—I wouldn’t say they have any more influence today than they ever did before. They’re just used more often, it seems, to discredit the truth of the Bible.

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Answer by Joss Whedon is my God now.
But they don’t influence the world like the bible does. The bible must be held to a higher standard because so many people follow it.

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