The Light of Pure Reason

‘Well, that is what I call the child of the good’, I said. ‘The good has begotten it in its own likeness, and it bears the same relation to sight and visible objects in the visible realm that the good bears to intelligence and intelligible objects in the intelligible realm.’ Plato’s Republic VI (508c)

*To understand the reference in this Pam-toon, search YouTube for “I Saw the Light”, gospel song. I embedded a video that the owner removed. P

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