Plato's Riddle

[hardblue]

“What is that which eternally is, which has no origin? And what is that which arises and passes away, but in truth never is?”

-- Plato, “Timaeus”

[Source: Arthur Schopenhauer, “The World as Will and Representation” (Tr. E. F. J. Payne)]

Comments

[maadmike]

I don't know... conception? It is always precede any creation?

[hardblue]

I'm not sure either. God? And, of course, we are the transient beings that are here today, gone tomorrow - like we never were.

[maadmike]

Gods of our last religions as we know them are the concepts. The thing is that all around consists from some matter. The matter is an energy. Considered that our thoughts consist of more powerful, energetic and stable matter or energy than for example the substances we can see around but certainly there are more stable energies I am sure... and in the end of our search we will find something as eternal as eternity...

; )))

[pigshitpoet]

considering that it is plato and there is an election coming up, i would say, "a republic"?

RE: ; )))

[hardblue]

The Republic of the Whole Universe

RE: ; )))

[pigshitpoet]

yeah, that republic..

ha-hah!