Rationality

And to protect your reason. He did not want you to care only for your *; he wanted you to protect your souls. There are many such luxuries and pleasures in this world, but what comes of thinking about them? You would be full after eating two corn buns tonight, and you would be full after eating a lobster meal. In essence, there was no difference; the various energies entering your body were not essentially different. Yet everyone wanted lobster. That showed that you were overly attached to your own illusions. All right, any more of this would get a little too mystical. We were not in a hurry for you to attain enlightenment right now; if you did, you would basically have it all. But if we considered this distinction and this analogy, at least we would know what kind of human society and state Plato envisioned and hoped for. What form would it take? What would it look like? Could it work? Did you think Plato could succeed? Put into practice, it simply could not succeed, which was why later generations called it a fantasy, or what some called a Utopia. The Republic was considered the world's first book. All right, let's look at this. Below, reason and the sensory world coexisted, with reason above sensation. You could see that these two worlds coexisted: the rational world was responsible for ideas, for what was real, while what emerged from the sensory world was understandable enough. Its positive appraisal was certain. The role of reason later became the most fundamental driving force behind Europe's intellectual emancipation. What did the so-called Renaissance emphasize? The things of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, right? Could this be considered a part that connected with what came later in our course? What were its