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Seeking Perfection - A Dialogue About the Mind, the Soul, and What it Means to be Human (Paperback)
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Seeking Perfection - A Dialogue About the Mind, the Soul, and What it Means to be Human (Paperback)
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How would Socrates and Plato react to a modern world where
secularism and religious fundamentalism are growing while the gap
between the human mind and animal mind is narrowing? Using some
creative license mixed with real history, science, and philosophy,
Seeking Perfection addresses that question. Matt J. Rossano uses a
narrative/dialogue format to superimpose on modern times ancient
Greece's two most eminent philosophers, along with its government
and culture. The story begins with Plato's daring escape from
Sicily, where he tutored Dionysius II in philosophy. On board his
homebound ship, Plato recounts his experiences in Sicily. In this
narrative, the intellectual difference between practical rewards
and the pursuit of ideals provides the basis for a series of
dialogue on science, secularism, religion, and the uniqueness of
the human mind. Upon the ship's arrival home, Plato's mentor,
Socrates, is arrested and his trial provides the venue for the
book's final dialogue. The final dialogue serves as a counterweight
to the earlier ones. Rossano begins and ends with a philosopher
imprisoned by his views, indicative of one of its main messages:
the true philosopher uses a well-disciplined mind and the best
knowledge of the day to get as close to the truth as possible. In
doing so, he invariably gets into trouble. This imaginatively
constructed tale will absorb those interested in what the
philosophical masters might say about today's world.
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