Eugene begins by drawing the three-part man. Truth goes into the head, Beauty in the chest, and Goodness in the belly. Truth is perfection, as in a perfect circle, or a perfect straight line. A circle includes and excludes; it includes a finite amount of space and excludes an infinite amount. It is a synonym for rota, form, shape, sphere, eidos (idea), and for True. When we think we encapsulate forms, shapes of experiences, in ideas. If all of our ideas correspond with the external forms we see in the world then they are true ideas. This is how a sane person can operate in the world. It is how we can converse meaningfully with other people because we can all agree on the truth of our sense perceptions.
He draws a hexon to illustrate; six identical circles around the circumference of the original one, creating the appearance of a six-petalled flower. He says he could do this infinitely and they would all obey the same law, the ‘Torah’. “Man has given rise to the idea of law from the idea of the circle.” The entire universe is arranged this way: electrons orbit their nucleus, planets orbit the sun, which orbits a central point in the galaxy. Simultaneously, every body is spinning on its own axis. “This turning around a centre is everywhere the same, so the one, universal law is rotation.” Whenever a circle is drawn, the ratio of the radius to the circumference is the same. “So one law rules all form.” This is the basis of classical philosophy and Plato was very interested in Truth. All the great philosophers, in talking about truth are “…talking of nothing but a circle which encapsulates finitude and excludes the Infinite.”
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