/lit/ - Literature

>>16484913
>all people throughout all times have an a priori concept of "justice" built into them even if it manifests under many different names
>all instinctively seek to understand the world in its essential Truth as morally Good or else it wouldn't be the truth

This proves religion is onto something more than it proves the opposite. Why would we have such innate ideas with such consistency if we were just machines evolved to eat and fuck?

So I am reading the republic and Plato says that in order to be a philosopher-king you have to study music and poetry, physical fitness, and mathematics.

SO: are the Official Platonic Boards /fit/ /lit/ /mu/ and /sci/?

>>12076271

Not much is known about the origin of the oracles, The oracles are from II century AD, and that was a very chaotic period for pagan culture, because two monothestic religions (judaism and christianity) had entered philosophical debate and appropriated instruments of discussions of Greek philosophy, which was relatively open to criticism and the interaction between opposing ideas, with the religious zeal of those who have to prove the truth of their own god - which is a claim typical of monotheistic religions and which was not a problem for the Greeks, who where less concerned with proving the existence of divinity but rather with understanding its nature. Of course, this was not entirely negative, as debate with christian and jews sparkled interesting theories and gave birth to various synchretic texts. Cultures influenced each other and the Greeks started to look at their own culture as a unified whole, much like the christians and the jews. This resulted sometimes in promoting Platonic philosophy as something akin to an evangelical revealed truth, and gave birth to several Platonic-minded/influenced text which has the character of religious revelation. The Chaldean Oracles and the Poimander are usually considered examples of those texts. If you find coincidences with christian/judaic culture my hypothesis would be that it is mostly because of the historical context in which the text was composed, which was synchretic and made it easy for influences coming from different cultures to be mixed into a single philosophical work.

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>>10309829

Will be added and thank you! Have a happy Plato.