"人權之法理基礎"續述(五十九) 活在回憶(21) ---- 知識等同回憶(VII)

活在回憶(21) ---- 知識等同回憶(VII)

造物主作出所有訓示，保持其一貫(無為的)理性，子女遵從父親的訓詞，從其領受有限生命造物的無限生命原理，在模仿造物主的創造過程，他們借了嗣後儲存宇宙的部分火、土、水和空氣----他們將這些物質融合，用四大元素造出個別軀體，不以他們本身的不可解開的鏈，但以細小到不可見的栓，將不朽靈魂固定在永遠流動不息的軀體。   

(When the Creator had made all these ordinances, He remained in His own accustomed nature, and His children heard and obedient to their Father's word, and receiving from Him the immortal principle of a mortal creature, in imitation of their own Creator, they borrowed portions of fire, earth, water and air from the world which were hereafter to be restored--these they took and welded them together, not with the indissoluble chains by which they were themselves bound, but with little pegs too small to be visible, making up out of all the four elements each separate body, and fastening the courses of the immortal soul in a body which was in a state of perpetual influx and efflux. See. Timaeus, 42 e sq.)

如是，上帝說服其子女，依其訓示，模仿其創作，創造(或複製)這個宇宙和生靈。

懷德海在其"理念的探索"( Adventures of Ideas)說道 : 世界的創始乃說服力凌駕強制力的勝利。( See, A. N. Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas, p. 105 )

柏拉圖說服自己 ，相信不朽靈魂才是真正生命，從知識等同回憶的認知，恢復靈魂原有的真正知識。靈魂沒有生，也沒有死。靈魂雖不可見，但賦有理性和合諧，由最高智性和不變本質所造，乃上帝的最佳造物，宇宙的第一原理就是靈魂的第一原理。( See, Timaeus, 36 d sq. ; Phaedrus, 246 a ; 埃里亞德前揭書第二冊頁198) 唯，上帝、吾人的創造者和吾人的天父才是終極真理、知識(The ultimate truth is God, our Creator and Father)。   

故而，懷德海又說 : 吾人的價值內在於吾人於說服力之責任。( Ibid. )

如是，柏拉圖的理型或理念哲學，重拾靈魂的記憶，如同哲學家的恢復其靈魂羽翼( See, Phaedrus, 249 e )，飛向永恆世界，終以上帝指定的星球，作為靈魂的歸宿，解脫輪迴之苦。( Timaeus, 41 e ; 42 b )     

(取材自Alex Pan's Digest)        

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