Plato's Academy Holiday Season (Revised Version) Card

This version of an Academic (as in Plato's Academy!) holidays is a little subtler and a more artistically version of our “Academic Holiday Season” card (the original version is still available; we just added “Outtake Version” to the beginning of its title. Insight Left: Cover: First Century Roman Mosaic of Plato and his students at his school (The Academy [founded 387 BC in Athens by Plato], destroyed in 86 BC by the Roman dictator/idiot Sulla. See back of card for a discussion of Plato’s “Republic” by that relentless Something Deeperist Bartleby Willard. Inside Right: Wishing you & yours an Academic (as in Plato’s Academy, famous for its rigourous multi-decade Form of The Good Studies program) Holiday Season Back: In “The Republic” Plato reasoned that humans had three parts: the reason-loving, the honour-loving, and the appetites-loving parts; and that of these three only the reason-loving part was fit to rule one’s thought as a whole (the honour-loving and appetites-loving parts just lust mindlessly after their respective goods; only the reason-loving part can step back and take the long view). However, the reason-loving part doesn’t have it all figured out. What can guide the reason-loving part so that it makes decisions that are truly better? Well, how about the essence of Goodness? How about a Form of Goodness Itself? If the reason-loving part could study that, then it would have a standard of Goodness to guide its specific questions about which thought/action path would be better. Otherwise, it keeps floundering about chasing what “seems better” in any given moment. Plato’s ideas in “The Republic” are basically the outline of Something Deeperism, although Something Deeperism is a little quicker to critique the reason-loving part, as it also mindlessly lusts after its respective good (more and more intellectual well-foundedness). Accordingly, Something Deeperism suggests that all aspects of thinking/acting should organise themselves better and better around the Light within (aka: The Form of the Good / God / Buddha Nature — we’re pointing imperfectly but not therefore meaninglessly towards what is prior to ideas and feelings), growing evermore aware, clear, honest, competent, kind, joyfully sharing. In this way one can gain more and more whole-being insight into that and in what way it is True to say “Love is All”. For more on these topics, see From-Bartleby and PureLoveShop.com. Author: B. Willard; Editor: A. Whistletown; Copyright: AM Watson