What is the best *ancient* Greek word for the idea of "true calling", meaning a person's natural work?
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Greeks believed deeply in destiny. They had a very specific term for it: Heimarmene. The word "Heimarmene" is the present perfect participle of the verb "Meiromai" which means, "from a dividable whole I take a particular part to which I have been allotted". "Heimarmene", then, is "that particular set of experiences which has been predetermined to happen to each one of us for a deeper purpose". This deeper purpose was defined by the Greeks as the "NECESSITY". The law of necessity was above every other law. "By necessity even gods are convinced" they used to say. But if the law of "Necessity" was strong, man was strong as well (and this differs "Heimarmene" from "Kismet" or other types of destiny). To the Greeks each man was a unique, autonomous, highly valued "unit".
Hermes called "senseless" were: "incapable of understanding immaterial things and could only follow the Heimarmene, and were not even in the position to understand fate as it led them justly."
Other thinkers sought explanations of the workings of the universe by personifying the element of causality which brought about events
necessarily and unavoidably; that element of necessary sequence of cause and effect was symbolized in Fate, known as Ananke or Heimarmene.
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some of the greek words
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2007/2007-07-33.html
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/bmcr/change_Greek.pl?url=/bmcr/2007/2007-07-33.html
For which word asking the meaning
true calling αληθινή κλήση
person natural work φυσική εργασία προσώπων
natural work φυσική εργασία
I tried these words using yahoo babelfish translation you also try it will help you
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Your vocation is what you are called to do.
ουσ
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επιδιωκόμενος σκοπός = This is the only purpose in my life...
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Techne, or techné, as distinguished from episteme, is etymologically derived from the Greek word τέχνη (Ancient Greek: IPA: [tékʰnεː], Modern Greek Ell-Techni.ogg [ˈtexni] (help·info)) which is often translated as craftsmanship, craft, or art.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techne
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Thanks bugsy - I don't think this is quite it though. Techne seems to be about the knowledge of the craft; like 'technique' in English. Whereas the idea of a 'true calling' has the sense of the 'right' work for a person and is not about the output essentially. I thought I remembered this being discussed in Plato, but haven't been able to find the word.
