The idea of another world arises with the pure, animate signs: Pure spirit, eternity, Platonic bodies. In contrast, the real world is a cave, an underworld realm of shadows, in which illusory existences see only reflections of their destiny: the reflection of the true, the good, and the beautiful.
The chapter tells of philosophy's birth - and of how thinking thus begins to run in circles:
That which philosophy considers as being or essence is the art of running in the circle of the universal machine. En kyklos paidein. But as we know, still every encyclopedia is alphabetical.
Speaker: Hopkins Stanley
Sound-Design: Martin Burckhardt
Music: Hopkins Stanley & Martin Burckhardt
From: The Philosophy of the Machine, translated by Hopkins Stanley and Martin Burckhardt. (to be published)
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