>That doesn't make any difference. The article claims that animistic beliefs are absent from Greek thought. The OP quotes four examples that very clearly say they are instead embraced by the most prominent Greek philosophers, like, ever.
This is needlessly nitpicky. While there is animism in Greek thought, it quickly faded in the West and has been irrelevant for most of the last say, 1500 years.
So while you can probably get into a long scholastic discussion about animism in Greek antiquity, it is accurate enough to say that modern Western thought (especially in the context of industrialisation and robotization) has lived with a mindset that is distinctly non-animist.
This eradication of animism never happened in many Asian societies, so the authors point stands.
This is needlessly nitpicky. While there is animism in Greek thought, it quickly faded in the West and has been irrelevant for most of the last say, 1500 years.
So while you can probably get into a long scholastic discussion about animism in Greek antiquity, it is accurate enough to say that modern Western thought (especially in the context of industrialisation and robotization) has lived with a mindset that is distinctly non-animist.
This eradication of animism never happened in many Asian societies, so the authors point stands.