To: betty boop
Not to mention that Plato himself was not an atheist. He seemingly had direct experience of divine Presence in his meditations, though he never personalized this God. This God is so utterly transcendent that human concepts cannot touch him. But Plato averred this God is divine Nous, the creator who orders and sustains the Cosmos and all things in it. And of primary interest to Plato are the relations between this God and the human soul (psyche), as primarily mediated by Reason (nous) which God and man have in common.
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Also, remember that Socrates had his daimon (δαιμον), the "certain small voice" which Socrates said would turn him away when he was heading in a wrong direction?
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17 posted on
06/05/2013 4:54:22 PM PDT by
pax_et_bonum
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To: pax_et_bonum; Alamo-Girl
Also, remember that Socrates had his daimon (δαιμον), the "certain small voice" which Socrates said would turn him away when he was heading in a wrong direction? Yes I do remember, pax_et_bonum! The Daemon who never told Socrates "what to do," but would warn him if he was heading in the "wrong direction."
Thanks!!!
19 posted on
06/06/2013 5:09:15 AM PDT by
betty boop
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