The whole Athenian way of being human was radically different from our own. Life in Athens was sustained by "cosmic ecology", a symbiotic ecology of gods, motherland and people. This was practiced by ancient Egyptians, ancient Chinese, and people of many pre colonial societies.   

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Key aspects of their real world-

1. It was alive with things that we would consider unreal- nymphs, curses, and mysterious energies and magic. 
2. The most important thing were gods. That's because for them gods controlled everything- rainfall, child...

We assume that our reality is the one true reality because all of the past civilizations were founded on myths, illusions and false ideas about reality. 

We think modern sciences provide the only truly objective knowledge of reality but the very idea of objective reality is been debated by ...

Human things- peoples, cities, societies, cultures, economy. We think that we're special and that we're the only ones who have things like language, reason, free will. 

By contrast, non human things to us are just part of nature, a mere environment of things that we feel entitled to use how...

In our real world being a human means being an individual, one who lives ultimately for oneself. We think that nature has made us this way, to thrive and compete with other individuals for life's important resources. 

But this real world of ours in neither timeless nor universal. It's just ...

Reality is something that humans actively participate in producing when their minds interact with the environment. Every people in the past had to devise a model of the real world which they would use as a basis for their whole values and lives. If that model proved to be sustain...