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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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Shadow Reality
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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"It's just a range of books. The range is just incredible. We have no analog in human history like him, okay? He's simply unique..."
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"...where everything is imitation, okay? This is our reality. It's a shadow reality. And that's why art and poetry and theater are so bad,..."
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"...And this is what we call reality. Okay? But it's a shadow reality. It's all fake. It's all false. It's all what we imagine..."
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Aristotle is not treated here as the solitary genius behind Western reason.
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