Inside Plato's Academy

[This is a full chapter from The Sacred History of Being, published in 2015 by the Anshar Press].


We do not have anything from ancient Greece which resembles a formal ontological argument. We might expect such an argument to be absent from the record owing to the polytheistic character of Greek religion. If that is, that we accept the notion that polytheism represents a state of cultural development which precedes the kind of intellectual precision which is necessary to undertake discussions...