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Spiritual platonic conception Plato describes in many dialogues the figure of the "ideal" philosopher usually interpreted by Socrates, who carefully evaluates every aspect of the speech with a view almost of transcendental meditation, a kind of dialogue with the interlocutor and not neglecting the solitary meditation in the silence (passing whole days motionless standing almost absent), and some authors have tried to identify if there was a spiritual conception of Platonic type for example regarding the a idea Well. Socrates did not leave anything in writing because he thought the writing was static, harmful to the memory, not knew how to defend and if questioned did not answer.. and then we can not directly know his thoughts even if we know who tried to defend tenaciously in the process for impiety, previously also filed against the philosopher Anaxagoras who pointed to the sky as his true home living surrounded by nature. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jan 01, 2012 
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 Platonic comparisons Among the various interpretations of the Platonic thought and in particular of that world of the"intelligible ideas" that are the core of the philosophy of Plato (developed from the theories of Anaxagoras and Socrates), we should mention the importance of the emanatism of the Neoplatonist Plotinus of Lycopolis (approximately 206 to 270 AD), who considers all beings in the universe proceeding from a single source, like a river overflowing and inexhaustible that feeds all others in an endless series of branches, but by entering into this link between Being and Nature or hypostasis almost a concept derived perhaps from the East. With a comparison of Platonic type, concerning the doctrine of ideas, some have seen as the logical process in Plato is placed outside the sphere of reasoning and then the man is almost impossible to access the universal concepts that are the basis of all material sensations of the sensible world. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 20, 2011 n: 1768 Platonic goodness Being able to know how to reason properly is for Plato (427 - 347 BC) one of the objectives to be achieved with persistence while examining the issues that the dialectic offers from time to time, but the attitude should be of a virtuous type and not a challenge with the interlocutor that almost must defeat at all costs, even using all sorts of rhetorical tricks. Evaluate and choose the good trying to get closer to the true degree as it is one of the stages of the reasoning of the philosopher from whom it should be evident from that sort of "Socratic goodness" also ready to sacrifice itself in order to be consistent with a strict line of thought. Note that Aristotle develops Plato's thinking and logic with the analysis for example of the universal propositions, (all men are mortal), special (some man is good), singular (Socrates is good); then the attitude of the philosopher should be just mild avoiding the conflicts. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Nov 21, 2011 n: 1742 Ignorance and Platonic sagacity The error leading to commit injustice according to the philosopher Plato (428 - 347 BC) is due to ignorance, since an individual not able to distinguish the truth through the dialectic can unintentionally make mistakes and can hardly realize the error does not having the means to do it, so should be justified in his attitude trying to explain the real to a point of view that starts from an initial idea developed it in all the directions until to find the right path. This type of philosophical works (to search the truth) in the Platonic dialogues is often made by Socrates, who is not ashamed to plead ignorant and eager to learn from the various "wise men" who meets along the way, instead he declares grateful every time to be learned from these essays; however, regularly found in the opposite condition of having to explain to the interlocutors where are the mistakes. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Oct 31, 2011 n: 1724 Platonic respect of the opponent In the Platonic dialogues are not taken a stand against the opponents and Plato (427-347 BC) treats them favorably and also even to the comic-poet Aristophanes that had contributed to the condemnation of Socrates with a ruthless criticism by portraying as from outside the world, suspended above the clouds and ridiculing the dialectic, the philosopher invents for him making the protagonist in an important discussion on love, the absurd and eccentric myth of human beings originated with spherical shape (four hands, four arms, two opposing faces on the head..) that the deity would then be divided into two parts to make him weaker. Aristophanes at the beginning of the discussion, after being treated from a "studied" hiccups, explains that since the split into two halves the men always aspire to be reunited with an unquenchable desire and once to become reunited tend to die of hunger and starvation for not wish to be separated. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 24, 2011 n: 1693 Blaise Pascal between calculations and spirituality To help the father to make the calculations B. Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand 1623-1662 Paris) built at just eighteen years old the "machine arithmétique" that even had already devised other mechanical calculators is considered the first project designed for the public, portable and easy to use even if still limited (according to some ancestor of the computer). In addition to trying to facilitate the calculations, the great mathematician-philosopher student of Mersenne also managed to demolish the belief that nature abhors the vacuum completing the experiments of Torricelli, then worked intensively on the relationship between science, philosophy and religion until to compromising his health and to declare itself "man whole of God." For Pascal in the "Religious thoughts" of the 1654 the man discovers himself and God with the inspiration of Jesus and must believe, almost on a bet.. albeit a little in opposition to the church. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 10, 2011 n: 1654 An unmoved engine for the Platonic cosmos Everything moved by another ends his movement when the first engine stops moving and then only that which moves itself never ceases to move and it is the source of movement for all the other things, moreover the principle can not be generated since is essential that whatever comes is generated by an incorruptible and eternal principle which moves itself and that has in turn originate from anything, otherwise it would not be considered a principle. This theory is often attributed to Aristotle (384 - 322 BC), disciple of Plato, but it is already present in the Plato's dialogues as "essence, definition and nature of the soul" that moves itself from within and is engendered whereas every body instead receives the essence of the movement outside is inanimate, such as heaven and earth together in one body would remain motionless if not always continue to receive life and motion. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jul 23, 2011 n: 1639 The uncontaminated Platonic nature To explain the technical phases of the dialectic that involves the careful attention of the talks for to pass then to the synoptic method that proceeds from the multiplicity to the one and diairetic in reverse from one to many, the philosopher Plato (427-347 BC), using the literary fiction of environmental fantasy in a dialogue in the uncontaminated nature on the banks of the Ilisso river that flows near Athens, under the sun lying on a meadow where stands a tall and imposing plane leafy tree and the place is made even more pleasant by the shade of a majestic agnochaste tree in full of bloom that makes the place a pleasantly scented, so shows to the auditor that the object of his investigation is the knowledge of himself. The part played by Socrates is very striking and almost without interest from other interpretations says to follow the Delphic precept "know yourself" and in practice seeks to obtain any explanation from the underwear on the nature and other things. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jul 06, 2011 n: 1624 Platonic pleasures and numbers To address issues concerning the pleasure idea of the philosopher Plato (427-347 BC) uses a numerical method of Pythagorean type passing for grades from the through to the unity to the multiplicity and then proceed to the divisions in order to achieve certain numerical ranges as sets that can show almost a coexistence between unity and multiplicity, and then get a scale of good and pleasure to that should aspire. The dialectic is the maximum purity, then the arithmetic and other practices science in different levels or degrees of accuracy and then the arts (which are just guesses), and from this analysis of all knowledge is also part the pleasure as part of overall good and the "happiness" that is not the satisfaction of material needs (such as scratching) but of those pure or intellectuals, and finally mentions that set of quality also moral and aesthetic in a global harmonious balance. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: May 07, 2011 n: 1573 Platonic good and evil The conception of the good of the philosopher Plato (427-347 BC) is connected to justice and dialectic ability to succeed in any situation to be able to distinguish the good that lies behind the appearance of the reality of the senses from evil, that "can not perish because it has to be something opposite and contrary to the good "and is almost a characteristic of our mortal life and nature, but precisely for this reason we should escape from this world trying to work always for an ideal Good, even if it causes suffering. Education is one of the methods to be able to get used to the good, and then practicing with music, gymnastics, mathematics, philosophy.. without constraints by starting young, and avoiding the poetry and the arts that imitate nature and the world of appearances (futile shadows), and practicing the dialectic or maieutic that allows the formation of a stable character in the face of life's trials. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 27, 2011 n: 1564 Soul - training * The author doesn't assume some kind of responsibility for the bad use of the articles councils (all rights are reserved) |
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