Note: How Divine Madness can Reveal Mystical Truths - Plato | Ficino | Bruno ESOTERICA

How Divine Madness can Reveal Mystical Truths - Plato | Ficino | Bruno

ESOTERICA

Plato is perhaps the greatest philosopher of all time.  He is renowned for his wide-ranging philosophical dialogues which laid the groundwork for all subsequent western philosophers.  Despite his keen use of logic and argumentation, Plato also praises a form of ecstatic knowledge brought on by four forms of divine madness of mania.  Indeed, he views this form of knowledge as superior to even philosophy itself in allowing the soul to grasp the eternal truth itself.  What is this madness which leads to true genius?  In this episode of Esoterica we explore Plato's conception of the 'mania' and the inheritance of this concept in Renaissance Hermetic philosophers such as Marsilio Ficino, Cornelius Agrippa in his famous Three Books of Occult Philosophy and Giordano Bruno.

呢個肯定係講緊當年希臘嘅各式 mystery cults。 (片中有提）

The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name 呢本書講緊古希臘嘅神秘宗教服用類近 LSD 嘅酒，而入教之人係唔可以對外人透露任何嘢嘅。柏拉圖作為當時大思想家，冇理由連呢個現像都唔知⋯ 但又唔可以同人講，唯有好含糊咁講下。

事實上睇返 (Claude 100-k 總結 (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 轉述 (Plato on Knowledge in the))) Theaetetus ，柏拉圖用蘇格拉底把口否定咗幾個關於「知識」嘅理解之後，卻冇清楚講返佢自己對「知識」嘅定義。

梗係啦，唔講得吖嘛。

知識係(啪藥之後)由「源頭」直接傳送俾你思維嘅嘢嚟，確然真實但冇得向其他人驗證。

大概後嚟嘅 Gnosticism 都係袖呢條路線發展出嚟。