2020-05-11T20:39:42Ztag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/thread/post/the-discarded-imagetag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/1047/38222020-05-11T20:39:42ZBrenda<p>One of my professors used to joke that education never provides the student with the reading materials they need to learn--just an awareness of what we're missing.</p> <p>But if you've never read any Plato, I would encourage you to put some on your TBR list. Not because I've read it all and I love it. But rather because my favorite postmodern philosopher (Wole Soyinka) divides the world into 2 perspectives: Eastern and Plato-Christian. After studying Judaism, he came to the conclusion that he couldn't lump it in with Christianity. But to Soyinka, Plato stood out as the only other philosopher who thought like Jesus of Nazareth. This really challenged me to take a fresh look at the worldviews of philosophers.</p> <p>One thing I've been coming across lately is very clear and specific places where paganism and/or Eastern perspectives crept into the church. In the case of CS Lewis' medieval philosophy, I must give Ptolemy the stink-eye. This brilliant, erudite man who understood math and tracked celestial movement in excruciating detail--his most famous book is used to justify astrology to the medieval Christian. In those times, every educated man studied him. I now regard him as the Nietzsche of the Middle Ages.</p>