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Aleph, The Black Ram @alephblackram.bsky.social

You see it in the fact that people like Plato and his descendants when they talk about beauty, goodness, truth and all that as being pre-existent Forms, from which they derive a metaphysical rational-idealist theory of objective morality, but have no interest in theia mania.

aug 31, 2025, 4:03 pm • 3 0

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Aleph, The Black Ram @alephblackram.bsky.social

And that's a problem because Plato sees divine madness as the best form of access perceiving the divine world, which pre-exists the material cosmos, and describes four kinds of madness given by the gods. So it's taking up the rationalism of Platonism, but not its real heart.

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