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| "It was the Socratic-Platonic probing of the human //psuche// [soul] which led to the Platonic metaphysics and, thus, to the subordination of science to wisdom (//philosophia//). For Plato, the judgment about the dignity of man rests with the answer made to the question regarding man's maximum environment and, hence, his ultimate significant relationship. Plato believed that when man is cut loose from any metempirical rootage and, so, dispossessed of all trans-phenomenal responsibility, he is shorn of moral dignity and shrinks to the status which is allowed to him by those who exercise supreme power in the state. Long ago Thomas Hobbes enforced the view that, if there was no absolute in heaven, there must needs be, for man's good (!), one upon earth." ((Cushman, //Therapeia//, p. xvi.)) | "It was the Socratic-Platonic probing of the human //psuche// [soul] which led to the Platonic metaphysics and, thus, to the subordination of science to wisdom (//philosophia//). For Plato, the judgment about the dignity of man rests with the answer made to the question regarding man's maximum environment and, hence, his ultimate significant relationship. Plato believed that when man is cut loose from any metempirical rootage and, so, dispossessed of all trans-phenomenal responsibility, he is shorn of moral dignity and shrinks to the status which is allowed to him by those who exercise supreme power in the state. Long ago Thomas Hobbes enforced the view that, if there was no absolute in heaven, there must needs be, for man's good (!), one upon earth." ((Cushman, //Therapeia//, p. xvi.)) | ||
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| + | "Plato's absolute is not exclusively in heaven; neither can it be comfortably domesticated upon earth. But Plato found no solution to the human plight apart from winning for the Ideal Structure of Being the common acknowledgement of men. We are concerned to understand the basis of his conviction that the ultimate Reality may be discovered as a guide to life." ((Cushman, p. xvi-xvii.)) | ||
| ===== The Contemplative vs Practical Life ===== | ===== The Contemplative vs Practical Life ===== | ||