Life and activity of Plato / part 3/

in #godflesh5 years ago (edited)

It has also been clear here that the true foundations and essence of things, as well as the true value and meaning of human life, are seen and appreciated well not in the midst of the immediate bumping of life, but viewed from the side and the height of deep human thought. Plato's example is typical of philosophers in general who can never be philosophers if they can not find the right distance of their view as they will either sink into the trifles and scream of life or become nothing to do with reality narrow-minded sectarians. The deep popular wisdom is known that the mountain and the people are in the opposite proportion: while the mountains as we approach them grow, the more we approach them - the more we approach them. Therefore, such a spiritual-spiritual dimension is needed in terms of human social and political affairs, in which they - without losing their clear outline, because of too distant - are seen not in their pettyness, because of too much approximation, but in their common high and eternal essence. Plato, by way of example, shows how only one can properly build a philosophical system to live in millennia.

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But theoretically, he points out that philosophy also requires inherent focus, deepening in itself and the problems, the strangulation of many and various practical commitments that divert it. They are from an early age, he wrote in dialogue - do not know any way to the square nor the court and counsel or to any other office. They are not overwhelmed in many written and oral laws and decrees. The lamentation of state positions with the help of political ties, friends, bribes and bribes, they do not even dream. The fact that a man of a tall or unknown kind was born in the state that some misfortune happened because of the misconduct of his ancestors - men or women - for all that the philosopher is as interested as the number of drops in the sea. As for all this, he does not even know he is unknown to him. Not because of arrogance he refrained from such knowledge, but because the flesh is really only in the city, but his mind is convinced of the complete insignificance of the individual things. Filled with contempt for them-in the words of Pindar-anywhere by exploring what is on earth and under the earth, he ascended to the heavens, contemplating the path of light and exploring the essence of the universe in every place.

After Socrates' death Plato and some of his other classmates spent some time in Megara at Euclid. Some think he has escaped from Athens for political reasons, but it is unlikely that he knew how Socrates was developing, and that his students had very free access to him in prison - that is, they were not persecuted . From Megara, Plato went on a long journey to Kirena and Egypt, where he met the science and philosophy of the region. In 395 he returned to Athens and began teaching, but soon he made a trip to Greater Greece, Southern Italy and Sicily, where he met the doctrine and organization of the Pythagoreans and entered a close friendship with the Syracuse Tyrant Dionysius I and his Shurai Dion , also a prominent political figure. Here, Plato was involved in some sort of political intrigue, and with his moral, self-taught and quite critical speeches, that caused the dissatisfaction of a tyrant who, according to his legend, remarked to him that his speeches were "out of date," which Plato replied: are very tyrannical. "This puts an end to the friendship between the two and came to the point where Plato was betrayed as a military captive to the Spartan ambassador. Since Athena and Sparta were at war at that time, and Syracuse was on Sparta's side.



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