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		<title>The Ideal of Beauty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 13:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The Ideal of Beauty  ]]></description>
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		<title>The Ideal of the Quest</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The use of storytelling, particularly that of the quest myth, is one of the fundamental human approaches to expressing the inexpressible. I’ve addressed this previously on my blog, exploring the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, and the allegory of the Cave in Plato’s Republic, but I wanted to take this opportunity to examine it in more detail, and also bring it out of the realm of the heroic to something that can be applied to our everyday lives.   <a href="http://idealinthewest.com/philosophy/the-ideal-of-the-quest">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Ideal of Justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ideal of Justice

Under all this running sea of circumstance, whose waters ebb and flow with perfect balance, lies the aboriginal abyss of real Being. Essence, or God, is not a relation, or a part, but the whole. Being is the vast affirmative, excluding negation, self-balanced, and swallowing up all relations, parts, and times within itself.   

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation

The prominence of the subject of justice in the Ideal tradition, or at least up through Plato, is one that I think frankly baffles most people in modern democracies.  Well, of course, justice is important, and we have a system for that.  When someone is wronged or harmed, things need to be set right.  We even acknowledge our debt to the ancient Athenians: equal justice before the law, trial by jury, preponderance of evidence, presumption of innocence.  And perhaps just because the Athenians were so passionate about implementing justice, and really so successful at it (with the glaring exception of Socrates), it can be hard for us to understand why it still played such a big part in their thinking and writing.  It is, after all, the nominal subject of Plato’s Republic, which goes on about for 10 books.  

The answer lies in the fact that for the Greeks, the word Justice, diké or dikaiosyné, had a much broader meaning than it does for us today, the key difference being that they saw it as an internal virtue of the soul, not just a means for rectifying disputes within the polis.  For Socrates and Plato, justice is not just a way of putting out little fires within the state; they mean to show that the whole of the state and the individuals within it are being consumed by fire, and justice is the way to extinguish it.

In the traditional Greek pantheon, Justice was represented by not one but two Goddesses: Themis and Diké, mother and daughter, who when represented in sculptures were often shown with the scales we associate with our image of Justice, and the idea of balance as indicated in the Emerson quote above.  But they filled subtly different roles.  According to Hesiod, Themis was a first-born Titaness, who was a wife of Zeus and was charged with bringing together gods or men for assemblies, at which questions affecting them would be addressed and decided upon.  By extension, and with a small “t”, the word has the connotation of what has become customary.  Jaeger says,
Themis is the epitome of the judicial supremacy of the early kings and nobles.  Etymologically, the word means “institution.”  The feudal judge gives his decisions in accordance with the institutions set up by Zeus, and derives the rules from his knowledge of  customary law and his own intuition.  (p. 103) <a href="http://idealinthewest.com/philosophy/the-ideal-of-justice-excerpt">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hell and Heaven</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Hell is all desire with no possibility of fulfillment; heaven is all fulfillment with no possibility of desire.]]></description>
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		<title>The Ideal of Immortality</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an update of an article from The Onion, we can report that the world death rate is still holding steady at 100%.  So you might want to read the following.…. Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; &#8230; <a href="http://idealinthewest.com/philosophy/the-ideal-of-immortality">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Ideal of School</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2012 14:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Socrates:I suspect, as indeed you seem to think yourself, that you are in labor–great with some conception.  Come then to me, who am a midwife’s son and myself a midwife, and do your best to answer the questions which I &#8230; <a href="http://idealinthewest.com/philosophy/the-ideal-of-school">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Ideal of Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2012 14:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That Love is all there is, Is all we know of Love; It is enough, the freight should be Proportioned to the groove. –Emily Dickinson The Ideal of Love is very closely tied to the Ideal of Beauty, as I &#8230; <a href="http://idealinthewest.com/philosophy/the-ideal-of-love">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Ideal of Beauty</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among philosophical or spiritual masters, Plato is unique in making Beauty an inherent quality of his Supreme Being, the Ideal. Indeed, he uses the terms almost interchangeably. Given the grim origins of most systems–born from sorrow, suffering and sin–it is &#8230; <a href="http://idealinthewest.com/philosophy/the-ideal-of-beauty-excerpt">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 39: The Ideal before Socrates, Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 39: The Ideal before Socrates, Part II     Stream Audio]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 38: The Ideal before Socrates, Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 38: The Ideal before Socrates, Part I  Stream Audio]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 37: The Ideal and the Establishment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Episode 36: The Ideal and Religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Real Nature</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our real nature–the Ideal–is Truth, Consciousness and Bliss.  But we settle for facts, thinking and pleasure.]]></description>
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		<title>Another Plotinus Fan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received a nice email from Joshua Sellers, who is also a fan of Plotinus and others in the Ideal tradition.  He wrote a fine poem inspired Plotinus’ last words that I think captures his spirit well.  Read the poem &#8230; <a href="http://idealinthewest.com/philosophy/another-plotinus-fan">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our first day in Heaven will be an orgy of forgiveness.  That day can be this day.]]></description>
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		<title>Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are all in Love in the same way that we are all in air.  Don’t forget to breathe.]]></description>
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		<title>More Shakespeare</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned John Vyvyan’s Shakespeare and Platonic Beauty in the last post, and am happy to announce that while it is not in paper print, it can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at http://www.archive.org/details/shakespeareandpl001510mbp It has its fair share &#8230; <a href="http://idealinthewest.com/philosophy/more-shakespeare">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Recommendation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Shakespearean Ethic by John Vyvyan has just been reissued by Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers in the UK, and I highly recommend it.  First published in 1959, it is an analysis of a number of the plays, particularly the tragedies, from the &#8230; <a href="http://idealinthewest.com/philosophy/recommendations">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 35: The Myth of Er</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Episode 34: The Cave and the Hero’s Quest</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Episode 33: The Hero’s Quest</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An examination of the way myth encapsulates our separation from and search for reunion with the One, using the example of Theseus and the Minotaur. <a href="http://idealinthewest.com/philosophy/episode-33-the-heros-quest">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 32: Botticelli and Raphael</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Episode 31: Michelangelo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Episode 30: Shakespeare</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Episode 29: Hermes Trismegistus</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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