#Phaedo

[kebriones]

Phaedo and Alcibiades from my fics

#art #alcibiades #phaedo

[platonicfrendswithsocrates]

close reading of Phaedo

#sorry if this has been done before #phaedo hot takes #socrates #philosophy #phaedo #mans is dead #socposting

[pathofregeneration]

Joseph Parker, Untitled

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The Visions of Joseph Parker, part III

“In Aldous Huxley's 1959 lecture, Natural History of Visions, Huxley articulates the visionary realm as ‘…jewel-like luminescence evoking clarity in its multi-faceted and transparent shimmer and iridescent hues.’ This description evokes Parker’s world, a spectral world with one-point perspective using the symbol of the ascending path up the mountainous road to enlightenment.

In Parker’s own words:

Attaining the mountain top has a spiritual meaning as follows: All human souls on this planet are in a school of learning to perfect themselves in order to attain a higher state of being. I have painted the mountains very steep because as the soul masters the difficulties on the path, more difficult tests lie ahead. Once the soul reaches the peak, it attains what the Buddhists call Nirvana. Then the soul does not need to be reborn, but continues its evolution in the Spiritual Sun that surrounds the physical sun. On the top of the mountain is a holy being radiating out love in all directions.

Joseph Parker is one of the great mystic painters of the late 20th century. Mysticism, according to The Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions, is summarily defined as: ‘an apprehension of an ultimate non-sensuous unity in all things, a direct apperception of deity, the art of union with reality, an immediate contact or union of the self with a larger-than-self.’ Images of paradise can be found in the literature of all the world’s wisdom paths. The visionary abode of Buddha, as described in the Flower Ornament Sutra, is ‘made of jewels of various colors and decorated with all kinds of precious flowers. The various adornments emanated lights like clouds.’ Joseph Parker’s vision-scapes of the soul confirm the ideal world described by Socrates in the Phaedo, a world beyond compare to that which we know. ‘In this other earth the colors are much purer and more brilliant than they are down here. The mountains and stones have a richer gloss, a livelier transparency and intensity of hue.’”

— Joseph Parker, Carl Hammer Gallery

#Joseph Parker #Art #Beauty #Painting #Visionary #Visions #Aldous Huxley #Natural History of Visions #Wisdom #Mountain Top #Nirvana #Spiritual Sun #Visions of Paradise #Socrates #Plato #Phaedo #Mysticism #Flower Ornament Sutra #Gautama Buddha

[philosophybitmaps]

#philosophy #quotes #Plato #Phaedo #truth #argument #deception #honesty

[lemurious]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dialogues - Plato, Ancient History RPF Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Alkibiades | Alcibiades (c. 450-404 BCE)/Sokrates | Socrates (c. 469-399 BC) Characters: Alkibiades | Alcibiades (c. 450-404 BCE), Sokrates | Socrates (c. 469-399 BC), Phaidon | Phaedo Additional Tags: Grief/Mourning, Death, Angst, Hurt and very little comfort (if any), Alcibiades survives, For that one scene, Memory Summary:

Alcibiades arrives just a little too late.

#lemur writes #my fic #alcibiades #socrates #apology #phaedo #cw death #the hemlock scene reimagined #alcibiades comes back just a little too late #lemur classicus

[qypthone]

#my art #OC #phaedO #brutus

[sherbertilluminated]

Herr Moses direct ancestor of Madeleine Miller confirmed

Moses Mendelssohn: a Biographical Study, p. 149

#Phaedo #Plato #Moses Mendelssohn #Mendelssohn #Alexander Altmann #Altmann #Moses Mendelssohn: a Biographical Study #Herr Moses am Alexanderplatz

[satisfied-cone]

ok so im writing this paper on plato and its going alright-ish, perhaps too slowly, but ill manage. its about piety and music, and how socrates making poems is actually him praying to apollo and or the muses, and how the divine madness is the object of the trade between gods and men from euthyphro. the gods give divine madness and people use it to worship the gods. does that make sense? any pagans here have an opinion?

#Phaedo #plato #crito #euthyphro #apology #socrates #dark academia #shitpost #phaedrus #apollo #hellenic religion #paganism #hellenic pagan #hellenic paganism #divine madness

[catilinas]

i love it when authors are like. well yeah this character doesn’t realise they’re in a narrative but they are aware of a narrative and it’s a specific text which you the reader may have also read and also they have Fatally Misread It

#this needs more thought but i’m lazy. but i’m thinking about a) caesar in pharsalia book 9 #wrt the aeneid (and also the pharsalia but mostly aeneid uh. 8?) #(which is extra fun because of course the aeneid hadn’t been written yet) #and b) plutarch writing about cato reading through the phaedo. twice #not even caesar could find an escape route #beeps

[doriantomybasil]

don’t you just love it when you’re reading an old text and there’s a sentence that you don’t understand and the footnote says “the meaning of this sentence is debated”

#great #so no one knows what this means #i’m reading phaedo rn and there are just lines where i’m like what the fuck are you on about #but there’s a footnote #and it only says that no one knows what this means #thanks for the help buddy

[kebriones]

Phaedo design when?????????

I got a few asks asking for Phaedo so

Eventually you'll get better art of him when i'm not sick and I can use my brain again

don't worry about his beard he will manage to grow it after he turns 30, he's a late bloomer.

#art #phaedo #he's 168 cm tall btw

[platonicfrendswithsocrates]

Phaedo is such an insane dialogue, Socrates literally puts his whole pussy into confusing/scaring his friends and then kills himself in front of them. Iconic.

#socrates said get fucked #the baddest bitch #socrates #phaedo #homosexual #soc speaks

[pantestudines]

Been listening to some of Plato's dialogues and man. Why did Plato write Socrates as being constantly horny for the people he's talking to

#listening to meno. socrates is like. 'ugh. meno. so mean of you to make me give you answers to questions #'if it wasnt for your handsome face and my fondness for handsome men I would be angry with you' #(not verbatim but close) #iirc a similiar thing happened in Phaedo where its revealed socrates had been playing with phaedos pretty locks of hair during the dialogue #i may have a name wrong here but he was playing with SOMEONES hair while laying on a couch

[drowningparty]

is no one else gonna. talk about how sokrates understood moksha

#I'm on a lot of pain meds #and naturally thinking about phaedo #he got it though!!! he understood!!!

[philosophybitmaps]

“Is it not in reasoning if anywhere that any reality becomes clear to the soul?” – Plato, Phaedo

#philosophy #quotes #Plato #Phaedo #reason #rationality #reality #truth

[mxlxdroit]

socrates takes twenty words when he could use two but his ideas are so fascinating

#chris talks #taking a philosophy class #we just finished the phaedo