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'My 17 Years as an Unauthorized Jew' (Introduction, section c: Dedication)
This section is dedicated to Professor Penner, my Philosophy teacher. You might think that I am making this dedication to him because of some academic agreement with him, or some important idea I perhaps may have learned from him. However, my opinions on Plato's late works differ from his and it would be a mistake for anyone to think the views I express in this dedication are similar to his. I am making this dedication to Professor Penner as an expression of gratitude to him as a teacher with deep insight and understanding. Near the fading end of my time in my 3rd life I was reading Plato every day as though I were a child who found their favorite author. Twilight is the most beautiful time of day, and in like manner is the most sublime part of any life time. A period of time when light seems to emanate from all things as though the mind is entering a visionary state and perhaps this mind frame must be, in some way, how every day prepares itself for its own death. I remember some of the things which I contemplated in the twilight time of my 3rd life, and I think of something Professor Penner once told me. He told me about a lost dialogue that Plato had written called "The Good" and I have wondered what this book might be like. Proposition: (a) If, there is a cure. (b) If, there is a disease. (c) Then, it is probable that such a cure could fix such a disease, and that would be good. Therefore: The Good is probably a cure which fixes a disease. Again: (a) If, "The Good" is about: "Goodness" from the passage - "By education, then, I mean goodness in the form in which it is first acquired by a child" (Laws' book 2 653a-b). & "a child's first infant consciousness is that of pleasure and pain" (Laws' book 2 653a-b) & this is an epistemological state of being that "goodness" or "The Good" is to accomplish within us "... that the rightly educated prove what we mean by good." (Laws' book 1 644a ) (b) If, the "disease" is about: what exists in a person whom is uncontrollably seeking after "...pleasures and passions and lusting for its satisfaction -- a soul that cannot contain itself, and is in the grip of unending and insatiate disease" (Laws' book 4 714a). & "dissonance between pleasure and pain and reasoned judgment" is what characterizes this "disease". (Laws' book 3 689a) (c) Then, it is plausible that a cure such as to restore our epistemology to "a child's first infant consciousness is that of pleasure and pain" can fix a disease such as experiencing this "dissonance between pleasure and pain and reasoned judgment", and that could be something worthy of being called 'The Good'. Therefore: "The Good" is a dialogue about an "education" that can return our epistemology to "a child's first infant consciousness of pleasure and pain" in order to fix an "insatiate disease" that is characterized by "dissonance between pleasure and pain and reasoned judgment". This concludes the dedication. There remains a multitude of questions concerning my theory and I am unwilling to continue along in the academic path of addressing these thoughts. In another way I will continue to approach these ideas of "The Good" as I tell the tale of my 3rd life.
2 Comments
Quite original way of blogging, this My 17 Years as an Unauthorized Jew story, seems like you really have a good writingproject here. Have you ever tried to get anything published?
Posted by Nicolas @ 03:01:2006:08:53 AM CST
The Blog paradigm is much more interesting and exciting as a format. It gives people a chance to ask for clarification and present their own insights too. I can't imagine ever actually trying to publish in the pulp paradigm.
Posted by Stan @ 03:01:2006:06:50 PM CST
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