On Being, Theology, Metaphysics And The Failure Of Platonism

The fact that Neoplatonism makes bad theology and worse [biblical] exegesis is no philosophical argument against the Platonic notion of being. Yet, it goes a long way to prove something else, which is the only point I am now trying to make. If any being ever entailed the notion of existence, it is Yahweh, the God whose very name is, I AM; and here is a Christian theologian [Marius Victorinus] who, because he still conceives being after the manner of Plato, cannot even understand the very name of his God. A tangible proof indeed that the Platonic notion of being is not only foreign to existence, but inconsistent with it.

- Étienne Gilson, Being and Some Philosophers, 2nd Ed., (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1952).

On Plato, Ethical Theory, And Ships

Lol of the day: whenever my professor talks about the analogous relationship between Platonic mousike in the Republic to Aristotelean philosophy education in the Politics he gets really excited and said:

"I bet if I keep reading in the Republic I will see Plato talk about the necessity of action in. So I kept reading and said to myself 'holy crap! There it was.'"

But he didn't use crap; he used a word analogous to crap -like ship. At first I thought it was an accident, but then he did it five more times.

On The Regenerate Life

Thought of the Day:

Just a thought: Plato, putting words into Socrates' mouth states, "The unexamined life is not worth living" (Apology, 38a). Yet, it seems as fitting to argue that the Spirit filled, regenerate life is the only life possible of worthy living.