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    Plato: Cosmogony, Soul, and Immortality (4 posts)
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    Author: * Nikolaos Cleomenes - 1 Post on this thread out of 545 Posts sitewide.
    Date: Aug 14, 2003 - 09:49

    Cairetw,

    I would like to open a new debate concerning the relation of perception, as is known to the philosophical sense, end cosmology in Plato’s ideology. Here Plato stated that perception is a creation of movement, not only from a single organization but also from the four cosmic elements (pur, gh, udwr, ahr)[1]. The above-mentioned movement creates the immortal soul (aqanatou yuch), which is the fact of the everlasting continuation of movement with received (apirruton) and extroverted (aporruton) periods (periodwn). These periods have their root in the soul, and thus became one with the “great wave” of the cosmic movement (eiV potamon endeqeisqai)[2] and a part of the cosmic evolution.

    Yours,

    Nikolaos Cleomenes



    [1] Timeus, 43a

    [2] Timeus, 43b


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