Plato: From the Argumentative Culture to the Metaphysics

Abstract

The purpose of Plato’s “thought magics” culture is to transform the effects of affective discharges on the perception of things into reproducible sensegenerating impression complexes, which are identified with the thing’s essence, and to show our transcendental cognitive capacity of knowing the unmovable in the movable, and the sphere, where impressions turn into ideas. Plato’s theoretical prosopopoeia follows the magic of pure thought, where the thinkable cannot but belong to the thinkable, and neutralizes both the organic automatism of polytheism, blindly harmonizing the affective stimuli of desire with cognitive behavioral reactions, and the reflective automatism of the consciousness in the time, when the polytheistic prosopopoeia was breaking down, the consciousness that never stops looking for intellectual justification of its affective movements and their reflections in the inner sense.