What is "Singular Truth"?

[kach22i]

Plato and the singular truth

A friend and I were trading some e-mails, I asked him if it was Plato which came up with the concept of a "singular truth".

George, I think you are right. Plato believed in a
world outside ours of perfect "forms". Wisdom and
knowledge come from the pursuit of the "logos", the
singular truth in each discipline of study, like
medicine, law, science. Man searches for this logos
and the truth from each discipline is independent of
other fields of study. He believed this "logos" was
from God (or the GODS in the Ancient World).

He believed in a Republic which would be a close to
perfect state, one run by philosophers who had studied
at least 30 years and had enough wisdom to rule. Sort
of like our America's forefathers who had wisdom and
were very good and honorable leaders. Today we have
lost the definition of "Democracy" the rule of the
DEMOS(the Public) of the KRATOS(the government). The
rule of the people by the people. Now the govenment is
run by privilidged double-talking lawyers, Sophists as
Plato called them. They preach wisdom(SOPHIA) but only
sound good and speak well, they have no conviction and
no wisdom or truth. Sound familiar in today's age?

Jim Z.

Yep, my friend is Greek/American, can you tell?

[alf]

Give me any word and I will tell you its Greek roots! Put some Windex on that pimple.

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by alf

Give me any word and I will tell you its Greek roots! Put some Windex on that pimple.

Say Hellenic!

It was the Romans with some undercutting jibe which labeled them Greeks.

They are Hellenic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenic

[M.D. Holloway]

Plato has several flaws in the Republic. One of which is the use of slaves, the other is that even the universe is not universal...

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by LubeMaster77

Plato has several flaws in the Republic. One of which is the use of slaves, the other is that even the universe is not universal...

I had no idea.

Different times, different world.