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# Introduction: The Static; the Eternal.

I think all the haters of Plato have got it all wrong. Please bear
with me:

Most of the haters of Plato see him as a wizard of sorts. The forms
are meant to command the influence of the petulant, dirty real
world--which is a reflection of these perfect ideals.

These ideals are supposed to be static, and fixed in time and space.

Clearly this is an unacceptable philosophy, and I think Plato would
have been smart enough to know this.

# How I Put It To A Comrade

First. I do not see these ideal forms as being fixed in time and
space, and as eternally unchanging.

And, second: I do not see these forms, which have an interplay between
them in time--in a dialectic--as being something deterministic.

Many seem to read The Republic, and take his organisation of human
society as the final word as what the forms culminate in.

But what of the Symposium? The Apology?

Surely The Laws deserve a good look-in.

The general upshot of my voluntaristic take on the Platonic forms is
that we are racing in time and space towards the ideals we imagine to
ourselves collectively and existentially. The forms that guide our
Good Faith with respect to our fidelity to the ideals which we imagine,
are selected by the decisions we make.

The everyday and the mundane is my philosophy. Wisdom received
existentially is the only wisdom worth noticing. The concrete is the
universal, in this aspect. 

The activity we throw ourselves into is the perfection towards which
our ideals are reached. Here I am fully deontological: the intention
we manifest in our decisions is the scoreboard of platonic perfection.