Plato and Mysticism | Part Two In the previous thread we looked at two very ancient religious systems of Zoroastrianism and Judaism in the form of Kabballah that best show the influence on Plato’s thought. Plato was a substance dualist and so his metaphysics reveal themselves as consisting of two worlds, one is the visible […]
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‘The military and the monetary get together whenever they think it’s necessary’. Pincohet and Kissenger What role(s) does the state play in the market economy? One way to start thinking about that is to look at some moments in recent history: August 1842. The governments of China and Britain sign the Treaty of Nanking after […]
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Plato and Mysticism Part One Between knowledge and the Absolute there lies a boundary which completely cuts off the one from the other. If the Absolute were only to be brought on the whole nearer to us by this agency, without any change being wrought in it, like a bird caught by a limestick, it […]