Plato and the Moral Standard (II)

Plato and Innatism

The Objective Source of Moral Values from the Standpoints of Plato and Ibn ‘Arabī on the Basis of Doctrines of Ideas and Immutable Entities

Belief in eternality of the source of moral values has a great influence on people’s way of thinking and their lifestyles. This research analytically and explanatorily compares the views of two leading thinkers in the Islamic and Western worlds: Plato and Ibn ‘Arabī. While according to Plato’s theory of “Ideas”, all phenomena including moral values such as brevity and justice have examples, ide...

Plato and Innatism

Moral Repair and the Moral Saints Problem

This article explores the forms of moral repair that the wrongdoer has to perform in an attempt to make amends for her past wrongdoing, with a focus on the issues of interpersonal moral repair; that is, what a wrongdoer can do to merit her victim‘s forgiveness and achieve reconciliation with her community. The article argues against the very general demands of atonement that amount to an obliga...

Plato and Divination

Plato uses the idea of divinatory knowledge as a metaphorical descriptor for a variety of kinds of daytime, waking knowing. What unites these examples is that they all include discussion of a kind of knowing that cannot account for itself, and that is tentative, imagistic and non-discursive. These metaphorical uses can further be illuminated by his more detailed discussion of divinatory knowled...