Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Awake

"Reflect: is not the dreamer, sleeping or waking, one who likens dissimilar things, who puts the copy in the place of the real object? I should certainly say that such an one was dreaming. But take the case of the other, who recognizes the existence of absolute beauty and is able to distinguish the Idea from the objects which participate in the Idea, neither putting the objects in the place of the Idea nor the Idea in the place of the objects—is he a dreamer, or is he awake?" from World Wisdom

- Plato (Republic, 476 C)

Comment: He is awake. But the Idea is far less than the Living Object itself, contrary to Plato.

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