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Conversion:Losing And Salvation-on The Mysticism Of Weil’s Reading To Plato’s "Allegory Of The Cave"

Posted on:2018-09-19Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z Y YangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330515492083Subject:Foreign philosophy
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Weil believes that "the ancient Greek pass to the world of the teachings of the New Testament contains the Gospel of Christ", Plato’s philosophy is nothing else, is a behavior of loving God, and Plato’s wisdom is the soul toward the guidance of God’s Grace. From Weil’s mystical reading to the Plato’s " Allegory of the Cave", the "Allegory of the Cave " describes a person converted to God. Cave is the survival of the whole human predicament, out of the cave means to get rid of the dilemma, as the way out of the conversion must under the guise of the three different ways of mathematics,secret education, attention of mind.Weil traces the spirit of Christ to ancient Greece,and discovers the harbinger of Christ’ spirit in Plato’s thought. She believes that every ancient nation leads itself to"spiritual truth" in its own different forms. And the Catholic religion undoubtedly covers these revelations; further moer,she points out today’s society is facing it’s split,which number is equivalent to the ancient Greece’s unity. Therefore, this "spiritual life"as Weil said covers the spirit of Christ,that is,under the whole vision of a unified life.Weil’s reading to Plato’s " Allegory of the Cave ", especially pointing to the three paths out of the cave,is three different paths and levels for God.Undoubtedly, Weil’s thoughts and their complexities are concerned, and the problem this article deals with is that in the circumstances of God’s departure, whether and how a single, one-dimensional, split life into a dull journey, is possible to have a whole vision.To comprehend "the whole", the human life limited usually hidden. As a limited existence,human being is already in the shackles of all kinds,let alone in a holistic view of the existence of their own grasp. In spite of this, living between heaven and earth,and so in such a way to understand,saying that there is. Weil said that each ancient nation must lead to the "spiritual truth"in their own different ways,ultimately,each ancient nation must be related to a whole field of vision under the unified life. It can be said that this way of inquiry,but also a lot of trends,understand the whole way and a way, rather than to meet the modernity has been highlighted under the various divisions and abyss. In other words, each kind of full comprehension and reflections,are already in a limited field of view triggered by itself with some kind of restrictions. But this kind of thinking, and the way of thinking about the "same",already in different ways related to the situation and fate of modern people.
Keywords/Search Tags:Simone Weil, Plato, Allegory of the Cave, Christian Spirit, Modernity, Splitting, Whole
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