Diotima of mantinea biography of william hill
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Diotima was a Greek priestess and philosopher of antiquity.
Diotima of mantinea biography of william hill
She was the teacher of Socrates.
“Diotima presupposes a hierarchical dualism between body and soul, physicality and spirituality, that requires conscious effort to realize our full moral and rational potential.
The soul is prioritized as our highest identity, particularly the soul pregnant with wisdom and virtue. Elevated beyond mere procreation on the phenomenal plane, it seeks to give birth to noumenal offspring—poetry, art, inventions, and mostly importantly temperance and justice.” (Wawrytko, ECC, 2019).
“The ascent is a central concept of philosophical and religious thinking: in a process of several stages of self-transformation (aesthetic, ethical and epistemic) the ascendant transforms their thinking, the ethics which guide their life and consequently their relationship to the world, God and their fellow human beings.
In a philosophical context, ascent is introduced as a concept of a successful ex