I was brooding on the need for a word to encapsulate the basic metaphysical assumption that created reality is living, conscious, purposive - that it is made of Beings; and seeking a term I was fiddling around with Greek roots...
Perhaps 'anthropo' to start with? In the sense of things being more-or-less like Man - and then maybe something about 'consciousness'?
So I looked-up the Greek word for consciousness; and discovered that there was not one; seemingly, the Ancient Greeks had no word, no concept, no need for 'consciousness'...
And then I thought Of course not! I knew that already from Barfield. The Greek consciousness was much less self-conscious, much less-differentiated, much more-immersed in reality (which was self-explanatory). For them reality almost simply given - via the senses. More child-like.
The Ancient Greeks began the historical process of abstraction - but they only began it... it wasn't far advanced.
But the problem remained - a word for the perspective I assume; a conscious version of that world view into which we are all born...
But maybe, therefore, it doesn't need a word, because it isn't a theory?
