Facets of a Diamond - Blog

The humane person, the true philanthropist, is the person of virtue. And what is virtue? Socrates declared that virtue is knowledge. (Conversely, wrongdoing is only due to ignorance – “no one [knowingly] wishes evil,” he declared in Plato’s Dialogues).

Knowledge of what? “Of his own and his fellows’ nature.”[1] The knowledge of our own – and everyone’s – innate Divinity, their psyche, their Soul.

(2010)

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[1] W. C. K. Guthrie, Socrates (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971), p. 141.