Plato says Where as the love of the Noble Mind, which is in union with the uncha

Question:

Plato says Where as the love of the Noble Mind, which is in union with the unchangeable is everlasting?

What does this mean to you???

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: "Whereas" or "Where as" ? Lol.. either way a sentence somewhere in Texas is missing its predicate...

Plato's expression above suggests that the "Noble Mind... is in UNION with the unchangeable, everlasting" FORMS OF REALITY.

Everything significant in reality is the reflection of its unchanging, everlasting FORM which exists independently and distinct from the physical world.
Things like Justice, Wisdom, Humankind, Truth, Animalkind, Honor and other realities in the physical world are only reflections or images of their corresponding FORMS which exist eternally and (ironically) have MORE "reality" than the things we see in the physical world around us.

When one can fully comprehend this, one has developed a "love of the Noble Mind" which contemplates the eternal forms of things. And when one has these in contemplation, one would necessarily act them out in their physical reality IF one really truly, and deeply understood them. To truly KNOW something is to KNOW its form is to be in union or harmony with it. The virtue of reflecting the forms is self-evident in coming to know them.

Socrates a' la Plato might have argued that if you REALLY knew what smoking did to your body, then you would quit!

Put THAT in your pipe and smoke it!