Stabbing in the Cave-like Dark before There Were Laboratories or Electron Microscopes, Plato Presumed that There Are Souls and that They Grow. How Very Poetic.
“Halliwell claims that Socrates’ remarks about poetry early and late in the Republic differ
because the earlier remarks, told during the construction of the ideal state, are oriented toward
poetry in education and soul formation, while the latter, told after the state has been
constructed, are oriented toward the committed ‘philosophical’ poetry-lover.” ~
http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/plato-and-the-poets/
Who knew that souls are formed as time goes on?
Can that be proved? Can the existence of
The soul be proved? Philosophers can’t con
Us with their thinking if it is above
Plain proof. Where is the evidence of souls
Beneath a microscope’s deep lens? What tool
Can measure souls? Can labs impose controls
To test, and test, and test again? What fool
Besides a Socrates or Plato would
Assume the soul’s existence if there’s no
Hard evidence, empirical, they could
Adduce? And how can any of us know
Their claims are true and check if souls can morph
At all? Such thought’s malformed, too like a dwarf.