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Perfect higher realities of which earthly things are imperfect copies or shadows.
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Perfect higher realities of which earthly things are imperfect copies or shadows.
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Jiang treats Hegel's Geist, Jung's collective unconscious, Plato's forms and ideals, and Christian heaven as different names for the same universe.
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Jiang presents Plato's universe as a hierarchy in which the Form of the Good is eternal, perfect, and immutable, with earthly things only copies or imitations.
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In Jiang's simplified Plato, poetry, art, and theater are bad because they are imitations of imitations, while mathematics is good because pure thought approaches the Form of the Good.
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Jiang argues that Plato's philosophy is unusable for Alexander or Philip because it makes conquest a waste of time: the conquered world is only a shadow, while true reality is the Form of the Good approached by mathematics and philosophy.
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In Jiang's account, the visible world is a lesser imitation or shadow of a higher world of perfect forms.
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The higher Platonic world is described as eternal, immutable, immaculate, and perfect, while the lower world is marked by death and pain.
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"...Eclectic Unconscious. Eclectic Unconscious. Plato will use the realm of the forms and ideals. Okay? Christians will say Heaven. Whatever. Okay? All right? But..."
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"...that for Plato, there is a god, and it's called the form of the good. And the form of the good is what is..."
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"Now. Plato emanates other perfections. What he calls the form of the ideal, okay? So these are concepts like justice and beauty and reason...."
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"...evil, what is bad, is if you move away from the form of the good, okay? Right? So poetry is evil. Mathematics is good...."
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"...you're imagining the circle because you're accessing the realm of the forms. You're approaching the form of the good, okay? So it's only pure...."
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"...thinkers. And he had his students copy it out in manuscript form. Okay? Does that make sense? Second is why are his works so..."
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"...all you're doing is conquering a shadow. What's real is the form of the good. Right? Alexander, study mathematics, man. Okay? Do more math...."
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"...is the platonic understanding of the world. There's something called the form of the good, okay? And the, obviously, the metaphor would be the..."
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"But this is all perfection. And from this higher world comes the lesser world, the reality we live in. So everything that we see..."
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"No. You want the Democrats and the Republicans to form different factions and fight a civil war. Okay. You want to create so much..."
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"...and so what's gonna happen over time is that they will form an alliance to defeat transnational capital, okay, and so This is already..."
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"...here, but I would get all the Gulf states together and form an alliance with China and Russia and Iran. And that wouldn't that..."
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