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Pastimes : Neocon's Seminar Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (435)	4/26/2001 12:20:39 PM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1112

I think the author uses the terms spirituality and morality interchangeably. Without morality, you have chaos. Like Stalin kills off all the competent people who could ably succeed him out of fear they would kill him, thus contributing to the end of communism in a very short while. Plato conceived the Forms as arranged hierarchically; the supreme Form is the Form of the Good, which, like the sun in the myth of the cave, illuminates all the other Ideas. There is a sense in which the Form of the Good represents Plato's movement in the direction of an ultimate principle of explanation. Ultimately, the theory of Forms is intended to explain how one comes to know and also how things have come to be as they are. In philosophical language, Plato's theory of Forms is both an epistemological (theory of knowledge) and an ontological (theory of being) thesis. "Plato," Microsoft® Encarta® Encyclopedia 2000. © 1993-1999 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. ?So I am guessing that moral and logical reasoning are derived from the Form of Good, ie the Form of Reasoning. Or, As the Gospel of John puts it: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God; all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men." The term, Word (Greek: logos), refers to Christ. In philosophy, "logos" is the supreme reason that pervades the structure of the universe.