Good Is A Noun Rather Than An

Socrates Is Not Just Expounding Noble Ideas In A Vacuum. He Is In The Middle Of A War Between Those Who Think Truth Is Absolute And Those Who Think Truth Is Relative. He Is Fighting That War With Everything He Has.

I Think Present-day Reason Is An Analogue Of The Flat Earth Of The Medieval Period. If You Go Too Far Beyond It You're Presumed To Fall Off, Into Insanity. And People Are Very Much Afraid Of That. I Think This Fear Of Insanity Is Comparable To The Fear People Once Had Of Falling Off The Edge Of The World. Or The Fear Of Heretics. There's A Very Close Analogue There.

I Really Am A Recluse. I Just Enjoy Watching The Wind Blow Through The Trees. In America Someone Who Sits Around And Does That Is At The Bottom Of The Ladder, But In Japan, Say, Someone Who Goes Up Into The Mountains Is Accorded Great Respect. I Guess I Am Somewhere In Between. I Enjoy Reclusion: It Clears My Mind.

Stuckness Shouldn't Be Avoided. It's The Physic Predecessor Of All Real Understanding.

The Good Was Not A Form Of Reality. It Was Reality Itself, Ever-changing, Ultimately Unknowable In Any Kind Of Fixed, Rigid Way.