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>naturalism
leads to nihilism
my position is triple paradoxicality, call it nonsense, because if soething is the cause of literally EVERYTHINGthen itself cannot be anything, nor can it not be also each thing and only each thing, nor can't it not be all things together and no things at all, logic itself is posterior to 'that', thatness isn't even refering to it, yet nonetheless I speak...
>Well, understand the soul in the same way: When it focuses on something illuminated by truth and what is, it understands, knows, and apparently possesses understanding, but when it focuses on what is mixed with obscurity, on what comes to be and passes away, it opines and is dimmed, changes its opinions this way and that, and seems bereft of understanding.
It does seem that way.
>So that what gives truth to the things known and the power to know to the knower is the form of the good. And though it is the cause of knowledge and truth, it is also an object of knowledge.11 Both knowledge and truth are beautiful things, but the good is other and more beautiful than they. In the visible realm, light and sight are rightly considered sunlike, but it is wrong to think that they are the sun, so here it is right to think of knowledge and truth as goodlike but wrong to think that either of them is the good—for the good is yet more prized.
>This is an INCONCEIVABLY beautiful thing you’re talking about, if it provides both knowledge and truth and is superior to them in beauty. You surely don’t think that a thing like that could be pleasure.
>HUSH!