SOPHROSYNE: A SUBSTANTIVE QUADRATIC FORM OF COOPERATION WHICH GOES BEYOND DIPLOMACY

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According to Lyndon LaRouche, the present world requires a substantive quadratic form of cooperation which should include the United States, China, India, and Russia in order to avoid their becoming The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. That is the fundamental world self-governing issue, Sophrosyne, underlying Lyndon LaRouche’s discovery of the higher Complex Domain of Principles.

THE SOPHROSYNE PRINCIPLE OF SELF-GOVERNMENT

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Don’t be fooled, don’t get upset, and don’t lose your temper. Just think positively, because the proof that the present British-American war policy will not work against Iran is that you are able to intervene and not lose your temper in order to solve the problem. That is what world leaders must also realize and calmly rediscover the Platonic principle of self-government: sophrosyne.

I am adding, again, two older reports I wrote six years ago (see below) because the present strategic situation requires an understanding of the principle that was lacking to prevent World War I and World War II; that is, the same principle that could have prevented the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), which destroyed the Democratic Republic of Athens 2,457 years ago. The time for this change has now come to maturity.

In the present world situation, the most needed change is the establishment of four fundamental qualities of government leadership, which have been lacking in the Western World since the death of John F. Kennedy; they are: “Wisdom, Temperate Knowledge, Justice, and Courage.” (Plato, The Laws I, 631cd) 

Plato identified those four leadership qualities within a process of creative change called sophrosyne (σωφροσύνη) or, “self-tempered mind” because those four qualities are not only absolutely necessary for every human individual to develop, but essential for any human government to function properly. The question is, therefore: how can those four human actions come together to form a New Just and Developing World Economic Order?

SOPHROSYNE, NOT SOPHISTRY, 8/28/20

SOPHROSYNE: PLATO’S KEY FOR SECURING CIVILIZATION.  8/11/20

 

PLATO’S REPUBLIC, BOOK VII: THE ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE

 

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The way to succeed in applying this Peace of Westphalia principle of the Advantage of the Other is by orienting properly all of the shadows of Plato’s Cave in the direction of their beneficial ends; that is, by manipulating them in such a way that they direct others toward a triply-connected unity of the beautiful, the just, and the good, which are related to a higher Quadrivium domain of knowledge, involving Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy, and Music. That is the key to understanding this fundamental Platonic dialogue.

NOTE ON PLATO’S REPUBLIC, BOOK VII: THE ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE

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According to Plato, the unifying principle of change in the universe is such that the Arithmetical over the Geometrical is to the Geometrical over the Astronomical in the same proportion as the Geometrical over the Astronomical is to the Astronomical over the Musical. Such is the proportional unity of Being.

                           

 

 

PLATO’S REPUBLIC, BOOK VII: THE ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE

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The way to succeed in applying this Peace of Westphalia principle of the Advantage of the Other is by orienting properly all of the shadows of Plato’s Cave in the direction of their beneficial ends; that is, by manipulating them in such a way that they direct others toward a triply-connected unity of the beautiful, the just, and the good, which are related to a higher Quadrivium domain of knowledge, involving Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy, and Music. That is the key to understanding this fundamental Platonic dialogue.