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"dependent origination"

Socrates as known through Plato's works (dialogues). Platonic theory of forms. Socrates's tripartite class structure for the state: Productive (Workers), Protective (Warriors or Guardians), Governing (Rulers or Philosopher Kings). Socrates's death.

"All such models set out to disturb our normal sense of self, presenting not an achieved subject, but rather a process of selfing, the creation of self, which is always changing. It is not that a self does not exist, but rather that it does not exist in the manner we consider it to--as permanent, partless, independent and essential."

"The moment we recognize an illusion as illusion, it ceases to be illusion and becomes an expression or aspect of reality and experience." Edward Thomas, The South Country.