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Cavernous: The Pseudo​-​Whole

by Whitewashed Tomb

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"Philosophy, meant originally, as the Greek word indicates, quest for wisdom, love for wisdom. And wisdom means here, primarily, adequate or sufficient knowledge of the whole, of first causes, or grounds of the whole, of the imperishable in the whole. ... Knowledge of the problem of the whole must be admitted by everyone.

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How can the problem of the whole be known if the whole is not known? We must have knowledge of the whole somehow. We must be aware of something which necessarily pretends to be the whole, something which we can realize is not truly whole or complete. And the consequence of this realization is that we must seek the true whole because we know only a pseudo-whole. Now we all know that
pseudo-whole, in the words of the Bible: heaven and earth and what is between them. The visible whole, gives rise to the fundamental question, What keeps this whole together?

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Now, Plato has expressed this story of the whole, of this first whole, a pseudo-whole. He called it a cave in the seventh book of the Republic. The cave is a whole kept together and kept from everything else
by a comprehensive covering, the walls of the cave; yet it has an opening leading out of it. The opening consists of the questions to which the given whole gives rise. An awareness of our living in the cave, the cave as a visible universe, is a necessary and sufficient condition of philosophy. That awareness gives direction and unity to all the particular questions which we may raise. This awareness would not be affected even if full wisdom were available to man because the starting point for everyone would always be what we see around us. At any rate, awareness of our being in the cave is a most comprehensive knowledge and therefore the only knowledge which can give us direction. "

- Leo Strauss, "On Plato's Gorgias"

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released January 30, 2022

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