To make it into museum object
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Can we say the phrase " to make it into museum object" in the following sentence means " to disable it or to make it valuable"?
" every philosophical school has its priests. it is their business ( the priest business) to administer the idea of the original thinker, to impart it, to interpret it, to make it into a museum object and thus to guard it."
"Prophets and Priests" an Essay by Erich Fromm
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MARS MILET Can we say the phrase " to make it into museum object" in the following sentence means " to disable it or to make it valuable"? I think you mean "to disable it " or " to make it valuable". I don't think it means either of those things, certainly not to disable it.
- MARS MILET Can we say the phrase " to make it into museum object" in the following sentence means " to disable it or to make it valuable"?
- I think you mean "to disable it " or " to make it valuable".
- I don't think it means either of those things, certainly not to disable it.
- Also, it is already assumed by the "priests" to be valuable, so there is no need to make it valuable.
- To make a philosophical idea into a museum object is to treat it as something special that is to be held in great esteem as an extraordinary feat of reasoning, but is not to be changed in any way.
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MARS MILETCan we say the phrase " to make it into museum object" in the following sentence means " to disable it or to make it valuable"?
I think you mean "to disable it" or "to make it valuable".
I don't think it means either of those things, certainly not to disable it. Also, it is already assumed by the "priests" to be valuable, so there is
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