Plato’s story, however, is also a cautionary tale about how even the
most splendid civilisation that the world had ever known could fall prey
to vice and corruption, eventually leading to its downfall. At its
core, it is the story of the fall of a primeval, golden and divine
humanity into the depths of materialism. The metaphysical idea of the
“Fall” of man from an original divine state is projected against the
idea of cyclical time and the myth of a lost Golden Age....<<<Read More>>>...
