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In our zoom session tonight, I mentioned that two different priests at Aquinas Institute -- Father Wajda, and another who shall remain nameless -- approached me, quite "out of the blue," and asked if I'd been reading Plato.
I said I had not been reading Plato, but looking back, I assume (or, perhaps I "remember") that they saw in me (and the way my mind worked) someone who resonated with Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"," especially when it came to ontology and epistemology. (BTW... The line of descent among ancient Greek philosophers was 1.) Socrates, 2.) Plato, 3.) Aristotle, one immediately after the other.
Socrates - Wikipedia
)Ontology: https://en.
Epistemology:
The Death Of Epistemology: Update
Te quiero muchÃsimo - sin fin y sin fondo.
Ale' 
PS I still have not conjured the quotation by a Minnesota native American - perhaps Louise Erdritch, whose novel your book club is now reading. I think the quote was something like this: "No matter how much money you have, it will not make you happy." Or...
Alan: I confess to never having been at home with the notion that we "own" ourselves, or that our bodies belong to us.
Ah, the roots of capitalist possession run deep!
We are owned by God, even if your definition of God is as simple as the sum total of all interactive ecosystems of which we are part - the communities that enfold us and comprise us.
Ultimately, we are subsidiary parts of the whole.
(And the whole is always greater than the sum of its parts.)
We are neither autonomous nor sovereign.
God/Universe holds claim.
Erdrich Quotes
Erdrich
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