For one may call the World a Myth, in which bodies and things are visible, but souls and minds hidden.
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's entry on Neoplatonism essentially states that this right here is the one Big Idea™ of Neoplatonism: everything—everything!—has an inner aspect and an outer aspect, and the outer aspect is in some sense the byproduct of whatever is happening internally. It hadn't occurred to me until now that it's quite natural to apply the same lens to creative works as we do to the world. After all, what is the world but a creative work?
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Date: 2021-11-17 02:26 pm (UTC)The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's entry on Neoplatonism essentially states that this right here is the one Big Idea™ of Neoplatonism: everything—everything!—has an inner aspect and an outer aspect, and the outer aspect is in some sense the byproduct of whatever is happening internally. It hadn't occurred to me until now that it's quite natural to apply the same lens to creative works as we do to the world. After all, what is the world but a creative work?