Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
To sum up: From the Platonic perspective, the fundamentals of existence are the archetypal Ideas, which constitute the intangible substrate of all that is tangible. The true structure of the world is revealed not by the senses, but by the intellect, which in its highest state has direct access to the Ideas governing reality.
Richard Tarnas • Passion of the Western Mind
Presence
Steven Schlafman • 2 cards
James Turrell
Michael Dean • 1 card
He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.
Plato • Plato: The Complete Works
Plato believed that it was essential for them to guide human societies. His entire political philosophy revolves around the need to aspire towards ideals, and so to uphold universal standards of beauty, bodily health, and all-round excellence or arete.
the critic • The death of Ideals
philosophy
Sylvan Rackham • 2 cards
who searches into things under the earth and in heaven, and he makes the worse appear the better cause; and he teaches the aforesaid doctrines to others.’
Plato • Plato: The Complete Works
