Perfect Crime: Christian representation of Plato’s ideas

We have considered the best parts of philosophy but as everything else, it has certain disadvantages. As I said before, when Christian ideology gained power and became dominant European ideology, it had to make and keep its positions stronger. The easiest way to do it was robbery — so they just robbed ancient philosophical heritage. I’m going to emphasize on Plato’s example as far as we reviewed his ism recently.

Plato tried to make a whole philosophical system, and he couldn’t step over gnoseological constituent.

His main gnoseological idea was the idea of remembering. He thought, when soul lives in the ideas’ world, it knows or cognize everything. However, as the soul comes to the material world (copies world), it forgets all that is known. During the process of life, by cognition and noesis, the soul “inside” human body remembers the parts of previously owned knowledge. We have got a similar idea in Christianity, however, with the different evidential base. This idea was stolen from Plato’s dialogue “Meno”. It is a story about an uneducated boy without any mathematical knowledge, who proved Pythagoras theorem, according to Plato, it is the evidence of soul remembering. In my opinion, it is rather controversial evidence, yet many centuries later Kant will build his own ethics based on the same evidence.

The second example of Christian robbery is immortelles of the soul.

Primarily, it was Plato’s idea, with its own logical evidential base (don’t mention a lot about a logical constituent, because the founder of the first type of logic is Aristotle, who lived a little bit later). His first evidence of soul immortelles is cyclicity of the life processes. Everything is dialectical — we can call something bigger only if we have something less, dreaming can exist only if wakefulness exists and death can exist only if immortelles exists. So if everything alive goes from dead, and only alive can die — it is the evidence of reincarnation, according to Plato. And if souls reincarnate, then they exist in the separate world (kind of soul collector) and it is the evidence of the dualistic human nature (body and soul).
The second evidence of immortelles by Plato is remembering ism, and we have already told everything about it.

Third evidence — consequence of dualistic human nature.

Plato postulates two different types of existence: the first one is recognizable and resoluble things, the other one is opposite — things that are not able for recognizing and, as you can surmise — impartible. So, it’s not very logical but from dualistic human nature, Plato makes a conclusion: when soul and body are connected, nature forces the body to be soul’s slave. And if we can force the body to exist a long period of time by balsamation, then the soul is surely immortelles.

Fourth evidence — dialectical. Soul by Plato — is the reason of embodied existence. The soul is the idea (eidos), the idea of life, and life idea can’t have any connections with death at all.

As I said before, Plato’s evidence is very controversial, still, we have got all his thinking chain, the way how he finds these conclusions. We can agree with him or disagree, we can find mistakes in his way of thinking and correct them and find the new results. However, it’s fair enough to say that Plato’s ideas became the starting point for the new interesting and much more logical discourses.
On the other hand, we have got Christian thieves, who had just stolen Plato’s ideas, and found one simple proof — God created everything and made it work this way. Of course, centuries later, when people started asking questions — Christians found new evidence — they stole it from another philosopher — Aristotle, however, this is the theme for another topic