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Derek Lomas's avatar

Justice can be described with mathematical balance and equilibrium. Harmony is a mathematical phenomenon. Platonic or Pythagorean justice is resonant and mathematical, diversity in unity, a harmonizing identity

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Samuel Kimbriel's avatar

so I think this goes to the title of your piece—the question of *experience*. It's a hard word but to a very significant extend both the pythagoreans and platonists seem to take interactions with the forms to be a kind of non-sensory experience—not just a mental exercise but an encounter with something that is not reducible to one's own categories.

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