I remember reading emperor Julian's stuff when I had to study for a late antiquity exam. Found that very interesting.
Can anyone recommend me some essential works to read, so I can get into this?
Neoplatonism
Evan Morgan
Owen Richardson
>fact is i wonder sometimes if the reason why we avoid talking about it is because we are horrified that the cynicism/despair goggles no longer work
yeh, i suspect this is the case. if an active evil agency does not exist, and evil is merely the absence of good, what is there for us to do but work towards the good? that's difficult! philosophers just wanna sit and think maaaaaaaan.
William Gray
Platonic Theology
Gavin Russell
Agreed. Plato ended philosophy (or Socrates mayne).
Daniel Stewart
Holy shit.
"Plato and Aristotle live in adjoining towns in the same country. We live in a different country. A brave new world.
For us an idea is only an opinion, and a form is only a shape, and an end is only a personal motive, and a substance is only a chemical, and happiness is only a feeling. Virtue is only prudery, justice only legality. Souls are religious myths and judgments that claim truth are judgmentalism and intolerance. We live indeed in a different world."
Jayden Richardson
>a single good that isn't class dependent
>no capitalism here
Logan Murphy
Fuck. How do I get out of this? This shit is so accurate. I don't want it anymore.
Zachary Rivera
Platonism is horsepiss. Avoid it, you tool.
>science
Platonists still believe in this joke?
Jaxson Scott
>good
>beautiful
>true
None of these things are existent. Stop jerking yourself off you stinky Platonist.