One asks himself and others: What is the perfect picture of something?
The perfect picture?
It may seem like a strange idea
What is full marriage?
Or profession? Or the government system? Or school?
It is possible to feel immature and ridiculous once we ask ourselves these questions.
It’s just daydreaming. In the end: who cares about the ideal pictures?
We also have to pay attention to what we have.
But the great Greek philosopher Plato
Strongly opposed however
During his work, he protested
That focus on the ideal picture of something
Is one of the most useful types of mental exercises we can generate
It is by knowing how the thing should be
It will help us to determine what is wrong in a more obvious way
We focus on what we need to do to make the world a little better.
When he was talking about the ideal
Plato used a somewhat bizarre but ultimately expressive word
Ideals
So he did not ask about the ideal friendship or the ideal kind of parental love
He asked about the example of friendship or the example of parental love.
It may seem strange
But what was in his mind is something very practical
When the Greek stone worker carved the decoration, they did not decorate it themselves.
They used a wooden mold, or an example, to verify the accuracy of their work.
The same example was made by their master
But if the worker has the example, they can – reliably – do their job perfectly.
This is the basic picture of what is perfect for Plato
Is the guide you need to show how well something works on your own.
If you capture the example, you can be guided to the real goal
The example, as Plato sees it, is a scheme
A set of instructions to make a good picture of something.
So we must think through a set of ideals
To guide us in our lives.
Unsurprisingly, it is philosophy that can show us these ideals.
So, for example, an example of friendship is a mental model
For what good friendship really contains.
If you take this model,
If this idea is active in your mind,
You will know how to become a good friend.
In the same way, owning the example of education in mind
It will be very useful for the parameter
It will stop her from being disturbed by daily events and pressures
Will enable her to know in her mind where – ideally – she should be destined.
We were usually thinking that idealism was an imaginary projection
Blindly ignores real life.
Think of it as an antithesis of realism.
But Plato sees idealism as the result of deep understanding, and careful friction with reality.
The person who will prepare the airport will, from a Platonic perspective, need to be in his mind
Ideal air traffic control system.
The system is optimally efficient, efficient and safe.
This person, by Plato’s criteria,
He captured the example of the air traffic system.
We all need to have as many ideals in our minds as we can.
Plato destroys the usual assumptions
In that ideal search conflicts with the completion of things
In the real world.
It drives us to be more precise in determining what we are going to
When the ideal looks quite remote and hopeless,
Maybe the problem is not that it’s overly perfect,
But in a strange and important way,
In fact it is not perfect enough.
That is, we have not yet discovered the example.
We should not abandon our example, we should be more ambitious towards them
Plato’s philosophy is at hand to help us.
The perfect picture?
It may seem like a strange idea
What is full marriage?
Or profession? Or the government system? Or school?
It is possible to feel immature and ridiculous once we ask ourselves these questions.
It’s just daydreaming. In the end: who cares about the ideal pictures?
We also have to pay attention to what we have.
But the great Greek philosopher Plato
Strongly opposed however
During his work, he protested
That focus on the ideal picture of something
Is one of the most useful types of mental exercises we can generate
It is by knowing how the thing should be
It will help us to determine what is wrong in a more obvious way
We focus on what we need to do to make the world a little better.
When he was talking about the ideal
Plato used a somewhat bizarre but ultimately expressive word
Ideals
So he did not ask about the ideal friendship or the ideal kind of parental love
He asked about the example of friendship or the example of parental love.
It may seem strange
But what was in his mind is something very practical
When the Greek stone worker carved the decoration, they did not decorate it themselves.
They used a wooden mold, or an example, to verify the accuracy of their work.
The same example was made by their master
But if the worker has the example, they can – reliably – do their job perfectly.
This is the basic picture of what is perfect for Plato
Is the guide you need to show how well something works on your own.
If you capture the example, you can be guided to the real goal
The example, as Plato sees it, is a scheme
A set of instructions to make a good picture of something.
So we must think through a set of ideals
To guide us in our lives.
Unsurprisingly, it is philosophy that can show us these ideals.
So, for example, an example of friendship is a mental model
For what good friendship really contains.
If you take this model,
If this idea is active in your mind,
You will know how to become a good friend.
In the same way, owning the example of education in mind
It will be very useful for the parameter
It will stop her from being disturbed by daily events and pressures
Will enable her to know in her mind where – ideally – she should be destined.
We were usually thinking that idealism was an imaginary projection
Blindly ignores real life.
Think of it as an antithesis of realism.
But Plato sees idealism as the result of deep understanding, and careful friction with reality.
The person who will prepare the airport will, from a Platonic perspective, need to be in his mind
Ideal air traffic control system.
The system is optimally efficient, efficient and safe.
This person, by Plato’s criteria,
He captured the example of the air traffic system.
We all need to have as many ideals in our minds as we can.
Plato destroys the usual assumptions
In that ideal search conflicts with the completion of things
In the real world.
It drives us to be more precise in determining what we are going to
When the ideal looks quite remote and hopeless,
Maybe the problem is not that it’s overly perfect,
But in a strange and important way,
In fact it is not perfect enough.
That is, we have not yet discovered the example.
We should not abandon our example, we should be more ambitious towards them
Plato’s philosophy is at hand to help us.
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