What does Plato teach us about the current civilization we live in?
What does Plato teach us about the current civilization we live in?
Predating Christianity (and respect for absolute truth), Plato observed:
The world that appears to our senses is in some way defective and filled with error, but there is a more real and perfect realm, populated by entities (called “forms” or “ideas”) that are eternal, changeless, and in some sense paradigmatic for the structure and character of the world presented to our senses.
Here, I agree with Plato (and the Standford assessment). The problem is that, with postmodernism (circa 1960), humanity has chosen to accept as absolutely true the “world that appears to our senses [which] is in some way defective and filled with error.”
Hence, we have entered an era of systemic irrationality.
It is therefore critical that humanity “transform [their] values by taking to heart the greater reality of the forms and the defectiveness of the corporeal world.”
Time is of the essence.
