Sunday, March 15, 2009
Plato
The quest that Socrates was on was a quest for true beauty. This beauty was not God as many religions see God but it was the unfading, unchanging, unbound beauty. It can not be obtained easily. It has to be sought after vigorously. It is "eternal oneness". These ideas fit in cosily with Taoism. The beauty seems allot like the tao in that it is not a being but a force or energy that is. This beauty would also fit in with Confucianism because the way in which Socrates was told to find it. One of the "rungs of the ladder" was pursuit of wisdom, which is a strong focus of some of Confucius's teachings. It seems that many religions are searching for the same thing but have different ways of explaining what it is. Some call it God some the Tao and other The Eternal Beauty.
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