Growing Wings of Knowledge
"The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings." Plato
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A Comparative Philosophy
Readings by S. Krishnananda
Knowledge, according to Plato, is the correspondence of thought and Reality, or Being. The universal idea of Truth, goodness and beauty, for example, must have objects or realities corresponding to them.
This highest rule or Truth is the object of genuine knowledge, different from mere opinion in regard to the world which is changing, fleeting, transient, mere appearance.
To Plato, love of truth is aroused by the contemplation of the beautiful ideas. Contemplation of beauty is the way to the contemplation of Truth.
The Idea or the Notion is inherent in the Soul, it does not come from sense-experience by way of induction. Man, to him, is the measure of things, for in man's soul are imbedded universal principles or ideas which are a priori.
For beauty is not objectively existent and it has its being in certain relations brought about by the contact of the subject and the object. Beauty is a relative value and not an absolute principle.
But, if Plato means by beauty the Reality underlying things, the Vedanta has no objection to accepting that the contemplation of beauty is the way to the realisation of Truth.
The love of Truth mentioned by Plato, which is said to be the devotion to the Eternal, that gives life and value to the sadhana or spiritual practice undertaken by the seeker of knowledge.
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Growing Wings of Knowledge
"The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings." Plato
Copyright © 2010 - 2012 Tomitheos Photography - All Rights Reserved
Photo Inspiration:
A Comparative Philosophy
Readings by S. Krishnananda
Knowledge, according to Plato, is the correspondence of thought and Reality, or Being. The universal idea of Truth, goodness and beauty, for example, must have objects or realities corresponding to them.
This highest rule or Truth is the object of genuine knowledge, different from mere opinion in regard to the world which is changing, fleeting, transient, mere appearance.
To Plato, love of truth is aroused by the contemplation of the beautiful ideas. Contemplation of beauty is the way to the contemplation of Truth.
The Idea or the Notion is inherent in the Soul, it does not come from sense-experience by way of induction. Man, to him, is the measure of things, for in man's soul are imbedded universal principles or ideas which are a priori.
For beauty is not objectively existent and it has its being in certain relations brought about by the contact of the subject and the object. Beauty is a relative value and not an absolute principle.
But, if Plato means by beauty the Reality underlying things, the Vedanta has no objection to accepting that the contemplation of beauty is the way to the realisation of Truth.
The love of Truth mentioned by Plato, which is said to be the devotion to the Eternal, that gives life and value to the sadhana or spiritual practice undertaken by the seeker of knowledge.
self auto portrait