>Homer shouldn't be taken seriously and should be edited as to not contain anything that might pollute the minds of the classes living in the ideal city with imitations of reality>ends the book talking about what happens when you pass away, imagining things irrationally>talks about the importance of leaving sacrifices in altars for imaginary godsWhat is my midwit brain missing here? I don't have anything else to criticise about the book except this part
Whimsy is realer than empirical blah, blah. Plato inferring and taking for 'a given' some conclusions from some Socratic conversations on the afterlife--aids him in conclusive remarks.Debunk why Plato veers into the metaphysical and moreover spiritual. Don't blame him for going there though. We most of us tend to.
>>24694738Reality isn’t fundamentally material and literal. Reality isn’t fundamentally dead. Reality is alive and conscious. The divine and spiritual is real. Human nature isn’t rational and mentally disconnected from its environment. People don’t determine reality. People aren’t equal, blank slates, inherently good, or perfectable.
You ore missing a brain.
>>24694738Why do you suppose it's at this point in book 10 that you're bothered about the gods? They discussed a kind of theology in books 2 and 3, right? And, do you recall what was said about lies in those same books?
>>24694738one is humanizing the gods which is badthe other is explaining humanity's divine originez pz smoothbrain
