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Plato's Dialogues - Path to Initiation (Paperback, New)
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Plato's Dialogues - Path to Initiation (Paperback, New)
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For millennia, hundreds of books have been written on Plato's
dialogues and philosophy. In this book, Carol Dunn makes the case
that the major modern scholars interpret Plato with an overwhelming
focus on understanding the rational content of the dialogues, but
omit or neglect the project of their purpose. Once they have mined
the individual dialogues for their meaning, they neglect to share
what readers can or should do with the knowledge gained from their
investigations. The author makes the case that Plato is engaged not
only in thinking but also, and more important, in doing-that what
we do with the knowledge is crucial, because it can determine the
meaning and purpose of our own life. She saw that he was not merely
engaging in rational philosophical discussion, but that the
dialogues of Plato, especially up to the Republic, embody the
Socratic exhortation for each individual to "take care for the
soul." The dialogues therefore embody both a rational philosophy
and a system of spiritual/religious principles and doctrines whose
purpose is to lay out-in a public forum-the path a true disciple
needs to take to have a personal and direct experience of spiritual
illumination, or enlightenment. This book is not just for scholars
of Plato's philosophy, but for anyone who wishes to penetrate an
ancient, though largely overlooked, path to initiation.
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