"PLATO: COMPLETE WORKS" INTRODUCTION.

“Since they were written nearly twenty-four hundred years ago, Plato’s dialogues have found readers in every generation. Indeed, in the major centers of Greek intellectual culture, beginning in the first and second centuries of our era, Plato’s works gradually became the central texts for the study and practice of philosophy altogether: in later antiquity, a time when Greek philosophy was struggling to maintain itself against Christian- ity and other eastern ‘wisdoms’, Platonist philosophy was philosophy itself. Even after Christianity triumphed in the Roman Empire, Platonism contin- ued as the dominant philosophy in the Greek-speaking eastern Mediterra- nean. As late as the fifteenth century, in the last years of the Byzantine empire, the example of George Gemistos Plethon shows how strong this traditional concentration on Plato could be among philosophically edu- cated Greeks.1 When Plethon, the leading Byzantine scholar and philoso- pher of the time, accompanied the Byzantine Emperor to Ferrara and Florence in 1438–39 for the unsuccessful Council of Union between the Catholic and Orthodox churches, he created a sensation among Italian humanists with his elevation of Plato as the first of philosophers—above the Latin scholastics’ hero, Aristotle. Plato’s works had been unavailable for study in the Latin west for close to a millennium, except for an incom- plete Latin translation of Timaeus,2 but from the fifteenth century onwards, through the revived knowledge of Greek and from translations into Latin and then into the major modern European languages, Plato’s dialogues resumed their central place in European culture as a whole. They have held it without interruption ever since.

In presenting this new edition of Plato’s dialogues in English translation, we hope to help readers of the twenty-first century carry this tradition forward. In this introduction I explain our presentation of these works (Section I), discuss questions concerning the chronology of their composi- tion (II), comment on the dialogue form in which Plato wrote (III),offer some advice on how to approach the reading and study of his works (IV),”

“After this, I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it. And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper and ruby. A rainbow that shone like an emerald encircled the throne. Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on them were twenty-four elders. They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads. From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings, and peals of thunder. In front of the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God. Also in front of the throne, there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal. In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, and they were covered with eyes, in front, and in back. The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle. Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under its wings. Day and night they never stop saying: “ ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty,’ who was, and is, and is to come.” Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to him who sits on the throne and who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say: “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will, they were created and have their being.” NIV 11-4:1 Revelation SEEKING GOD it's QUITE AN UNDERTAKING BUT IM HAVING A LOT OF FUN.

WHY IVE BEGUN WEARING SUNGLASSES  

THERE WAS NO POINT TO THIS, I REMEMBER HAVING A POINT. THE REPUBLIC BY PLATO.

THOUGHTS ON PLATO'S "IDEAL" STATE. THE REPUBLIC BY PLATO.

THOUGHTS ON PLATOS "IDEAL" STATE. THE REPUBLIC BY PLATO.

I AM THE TRUE VINE, AND MY FATHER IS THE GARDENER. DISCUSSING JOHN 15:1-4

THE 2ND PART OF THE SEEKING GOD SERIES. I DISCUSS THE COMFORT I FELT WHILE PRAYING TO GOD.

BEGINNING WITH THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION. GENESIS 31:29 AND WONDERING WHY GOD HAS GONE SILENT.

I don't remebere if this is what this episode is about. my thoughts on the republic by Plato