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pakeerathan
pakeerathan
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High School - 12th Grade

Why should any person be god?

This is from philoshophy.

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Posted by pakeerathan on Monday September 7, 2009 at 8:09 PM and tagged with god, plato, the republic.

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  1. krishna-agrawala
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    Graduate School

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    As per my own views and the ideas of Plato contained in in The Republic any person need not and cannot be God.

    According to Plato God is not the God to be worshipped as part of religious. For him God is an impersonal and intangible entity that represents the ultimate reality behind the physical world. It is timeless, abstract and unchanging object that can only be understood by intellect. It cannot be perceived by senses. It is the pre-condition of the origin of all the forms we experience or see in the physical world. The physical world consists of matter while God of Plato consists of ideas.

    Thus it appears quite unlikely to me that Plato believed that any individual should be God.

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    Posted by krishna-agrawala on Monday September 7, 2009 at 9:17 PM

  2. pakeerathan
    pakeerathan Student
    High School - 12th Grade

    asuming knowledge is important for ethics?

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    Posted by pakeerathan on Tuesday September 8, 2009 at 7:10 AM