HUMANITIES

Humanities

Humanities

Introduction

Plato was the first ancient Greek political philosopher and indeed the first philosopher to leave a large and systematic body of work exploring the relationship between ethics, politics, metaphysics, and epistemology. He has expounded the concept of enlightenment and the good life in various writing of him.

Notion of Enlightenment

Beyond any notion of divinity, enlightenment according to Plato is described as a "direct vision of reality" characterized by a feeling of eternity, an infinite joy, a wonder at the intrinsic perfection of all things, a sense of non-separation between subject and object, dissolution of the sense of separate individuality and communion with ...