from Google AI:
In Plato's Symposium, Diotima explains that mortals achieve immortality not through everlasting life, but by creating a legacy that survives the body's death. The three primary ways to achieve this immortality are through physical procreation, the creation of virtue and wisdom, and the contemplation of the eternal Form of Beauty.
1. Physical Procreation (Biological Immortality)2. Creation of Virtue and Intellectual Legacy (Cultural Immortality)
- Definition: The most basic form of reproduction, where individuals seek to leave behind children.
- Purpose: According to Diotima, this allows mortals to perpetuate their existence and name, as the offspring carries forward the parents' likeness.
3. Contemplation of the Form of Beauty (Spiritual Immortality)
- Definition: Creating "immortal" works, such as poetry, laws, art, or virtuoso deeds (as described in LitCharts).
- Purpose: These creations, particularly in wisdom or civic virtue, offer a more profound, lasting legacy than children, keeping a person’s memory alive forever.
These forms represent an "ascent to immortality", where one moves from seeking ephemeral, physical reproduction to achieving a permanent, divine-like existence through philosophical contemplation of truth.
- Definition: The final step of the "Ladder of Love," where the soul leaves behind physical and intellectual pursuits to behold the absolute, unchanging Form of Beauty itself.
- Purpose: By connecting directly with the divine and immortal, the philosopher's soul attains a form of "earned immortality" or "divine status" [5, 14, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews].
...or Just Freally Being his Charming Self?
Yawn... they(and you) justdunno what Infinity is...
ReplyDeleteDo I look like I'm from India?
DeleteMy light cone knows that form is defined by limit.
DeleteEven the Universe has a "limit" driven by c and defined by its' cosmic background radiation "edge".
DeleteThe vacuum energy "space" beyond it is of no concern to me.
DeleteI'll stick to knowing the things applicable and appropriate to my form.
DeleteA limit freely chosen. ;p
Delete"What is one second of eternity?"(c)
ReplyDelete...am I travelling at near the speed of light? Then for the Universe itself its' eternity, and for me, one second
DeleteUntil... one meets the ground at that speed. Yawn.
DeleteIrresistible force.... meet immovable object!
Delete...a burst of pure energy!
DeleteOne second of eternity" is a poetic metaphor for an unfathomably long duration, famously described in Doctor Who as the time it takes for a bird to wear down a giant diamond mountain by sharpening its beak on it once every 100 years. It represents the beginning of infinite time, often calculated as quadrillions of years, emphasizing that eternity is vast and unending.Usage Examples and MeaningDoctor Who (Heaven Sent): The Doctor uses this fable to explain his 4.5-billion-year imprisonment, during which he punches through a wall of hard mineral (azbantium) to escape, representing that even immense time spans are just the beginning of eternity
ReplyDeleteIt's nice that the tardis can go forwards AND backwards in time so that the good Doctor doesn't need to always leave his friends "behind".
DeleteOnly... he firbiden to return to same time twice. Yawn.
DeleteIt would be embarrassing to like Spock, meet yourself!
Delete...like a bad memory!
Deletetechnically... that was two different Spocks ;-p
DeleteWas it? Spock's original mind was downloaded into McCoy, and then re-uploaded into Spock's clone. The ship was still Theseus'....
DeleteOh, sorry... you about that old flick.
DeleteI thought you mentioned "recent" re-load. Nimoi meets his younger self ;-p