Wordt Vervolgd! {Paranoide?} Re: 20-3-'04


THAT's the way love {also} is ...
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"CHIEF"
among these
young men was
Plato {427
to 347 B.C.},
who presently began to teach philosophy
in the grove of the Academy
...
HIS
teaching fell
into two main
divisions,
an examination
of the foundations
and methods
of human thinking and
an examination
of political institutions.
HE
was the first man
to write a
UTOPIA,
that is to say
the plan of a community
different from
and better than
any existing community.
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THIS
shows an
altogether unprecedented boldness
in the human mind
which had hitherto accepted
social traditions
and usages
with scarcely a questin.
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Plato
said plainly to mankind:
"Most of the social and political ills
from which you suffer
are under your control,
given only the will
and courage to change them.
YOU CAN LIVE
IN ANOTHER AND A WISER FASHION
IF YOU CHOOSE
TO THINK IT OUT
AND WORK IT
OUT!
You
are not
awake {yet} to
your own
power?"
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THAT
is a
highly adventurous teaching
that has still to soak in
to the common intelligence
of our race.
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ONE
of his earliest works
was the Republic, a dream of a 'communist' aristocracy;
his last unfinished work was the Laws,
a scheme of regulation for another
such Utopian state.
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The criticism of methods of thinking
and methods of government was carried on after Plato's death
by Aristotle, who had been his pupil
and who taught in the Lyceum.
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Aristotle came from the city of Stagira in Macedonia,
and his father was court physician to the Macedonian king.
For a time Aristotle was tutor to Alexander, the king's son, who was destined to achieve very great things of which we shall soon be telling in
our myDi too?
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Aristotle's work
upon methods of thinking
carried the science of Logic to a level at which it remained
for fifteen hundred years or more,
until the mediaeval schoolmen
took up the ancient
questions again?
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HE made no Utopias.
BEFORE man could really control his destiny as Plato taught,
Aristotle perceived that he needed far more knowledge
and far more accurate knowledge
than he possessed!
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And SO Aristotle
began that systematic collection of knowledge
which nowadays we call SCIENCE.
HE sent out explorers to collect facts!
He was the father of natural history.
He was the founder of political science.
And his students at the Lyceum examined and compared
the constitutions of 158 different states ...
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HERE in the fourth century B.C.
we find men who are practically 'modern thinkers'?
The child-like, dreamlike methods of 'primitive' thought had given way
to a disciplined and critical attack upon
the problems of life ...
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The weird and monstrous symbolism and imagery of the gods and god-
monsters, and all the taboos and awes and restraints
that hitherto encumbered thinking
has begun ........
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The fresh
and unencumbered mind of these newcomers
out of the northern forests
has thrust itself into the mysteries of the temple and
let the daylight in .......
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And unless we
myDi-buccaneers and assorted pirates of different places
join this search for knowledge and understanding
we are still lost in the steppes and jungles
of our own brains and circumstances.
ALL we have to do is
open our mind!
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And our heart?
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