PLATO’S ‘DELIRIOUS ART’ OF FORECASTING THE GOOD

Throughout history, divination has mostly been recorded as a form of manipulation of people with oracles about their uncertainties and hopes for their future. Such a form of forecasting has tended to be used to entice people into believing that something good would come if they didn’t make waves and if they accepted to go along to get along with the powers and principalities that be. Politics is nothing but a hypocritical form of that ancient practice of divination, whereby oracles are replaced by governing promises of delivering future goods. The question is: can human beings develop a higher natural state of mind, a higher knowledge, which supersedes political forms of divination, which opens the mind to direct divine inspiration, and which ultimately secures the peace of the world for mankind? Socrates and Plato thought it could be done. Do you?

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