CLASS 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Pythagorean Theorem, Christian Mortalism, Greek Mythology
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Plato: uses a muthos to convey his own idea about justice. Tells a story of someone that did die and came back and able to tell everyone- Myth of ur: dies on the battle eld and then comes back again and is able to tell everyone of what he saw and learned of the afterlife. Er: when you die, you get rewarded in the afterlife, if you lived a bad life then you punished. You"re punished ten times over-very powerful, and very important-symbolic. Reward is up to the right, punishment down to the left. Using symbolic values of up and down and left and right to describe the afterlife process. After you go through the long process of reward or punishment, you are presented with a choice for your new life. Using the spheres in which the planets move-the world, the cosmos is physically ordered in a particular way.
