Christian Thomas Kohl The Metaphysical Foundations of Buddhism and Modern Science

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is Plato’s Eros, which he sublimates into the notion of the soul in the enjoyment of its creative function, arising from its entertainment of ideas. The word Eros means ‘Love’, and in The Symposium Plato gradually elicits his final conception of the urge towards ideal perfection. It is obvious the he should have written a companion dialogue which might have been named The Furies, dwelling on the horrors lurking within imperfect realization. Plato, although he neglected to write this missing dialogue, did not overlook the confusion and disorder in Nature. He expressly denies omnipotence to his Supreme Craftsman. The influence of the entertainment of ideas is always persuasive, and can only produce such order as is possible. However, on this point he wavers, and sometimes writes as if the Craftsman were disposing the world according to his supreme will. The notion of an excellence, partly attained and partly missed, raises another problem which greatly exercised Greek thought at the time of Plato. The problem can take many special forms. In what does beauty consists, for example, the beauty of a musical melody, the beauty of a statue, or of a building such as the Parthenon? Also, there is that other form of beauty, which is rightness of conduct. Probably in this naïve shape, the question has no answer; since ‘The God’ is an ultimate
qualification not to be analyzed in terms of any things more final than itself. But an analogous question can be asked, to which Greek thought was unanimous as to its answer. To what sort of things does the concept of apply, and in particular what sort of conditions are requisite for its evocation? The Greek answer to that latter pair of questions was that beauty belonged to composite things, and that the composition is beautiful when the many components have obtained in some sense the proper proportions. This was the Greek doctrine of Harmony, in respect to which neither Plato nor Aristotle ever waved. In respect to Harmony, the Greeks made a discovery which is a landmark in the history of thought. They found out that exact Mathematical Relationships, as they exist in Geometry and in the numerical proportions of measurements, are realized in various outstanding examples of beautiful composition. For instance Archytas discovered that, other circumstances being equal, the note given out by a stretched string depends on the length of the string, and that beautiful compositions of notes correspond to certain simple laws as to the proportional lengths of the strings. Also they investigated the dependence of the beauty of architecture upon the preservation of the proper proportions in the various dimensions. This was an immense discovery, the dependence of the qualitative elements in the world upon mathematical relations. The facts had gradually accumulated through thousands of years. The early Babylonians knew that the qualitative fact of the succession of seasons
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1.Summary The key terms. 1. Key ter
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ideas of substance or subject, two
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2. Nagarjuna Preliminary note We sh
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distinction between two forms of be
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(4) Instrumentalism Instead of favo
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When a general idea has been obtain
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the correspondence between a model
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E. D. & Feldman, G. J. Quarkonium.
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8. Bibliography Bloom, E. D. & Feld
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'T Hooft, G. Symmetrien in der Phys
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