0407吾輩は名無しである2017/05/10(水) 20:30:14.15ID:A8j9DJHc His(=Plotinus') life is almost co-extensive with one of the most disastrous periods in Roman history. ..... He turned aside from the spectacle of ruin and misery in the actual world, to contemplate an eternal world of goodness and beauty. In this he was in harmony with all the most serious men of his age. To all of them, Christians and pagans alike, the world of practical affairs seemed to offer no hope, and only the Other World seemed worthy of allegiance. To the Christian, the Other World was the Kingdom of Heaven, to be enjoyed after death; to the Platonist, it was the eternal world of ideas, the real world as opposed to that of illusory appearance. (Russell, History of Western Philosophy, p.) 0408吾輩は名無しである2017/05/10(水) 21:08:15.77ID:A8j9DJHc (In) the imagination anything goes that can be imagined, and the limit of the imagination is a totally human world. Here we recapture , in full consciousness, that original lost sense of identity with our surroundings, where there is nothing outside the mind of man, or something identical with the mind of man. Religions present us with visions of eternal and infinite heavens or paradises which have the form of the cities and gardens of human civilization, like the Jerusalem and Eden of the Bible, completely separated from the state of frustration and misery that bulks so large in ordinary life. (Frye, The Educated Imagination)
