... , and justice must exist outside the human condition. "... (to) be a good man - which is what you were speaking of, Pittacus - is impossible and super-human. This is the previlege of a god alone..."(Plato's The Protagoras pp 79) Humans cannot be noble, just, and couragous but must strive to become these, that is, to live grounded within the rules of absolute truth ... with the laws of nature, the world of sensiblity and situational ethics. This is analgous to the photon which has a dicotamy of both particle and wave like behaviors infused within it. The wave like characteristics being in...

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... thought is revealed early in the Timaeus. In discussing the origins of this world, he designates the Demiurge, or his equivalent of the contemporary God as the creator of the universe. Because his philosophy was much easier to "Christianize," it seems reasonable to think that Platonism was more warmly ... have given the name time.(31)" Furthermore, Plato continues to appoint this higher being as the creator of humans. With the birth of "the most god-fearing of living creatures," Plato asserts that the Demiurge declared "the better sort of human nature should there-after be called "man."...

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