Do you ever feel like you just
can’t express yourself and no one understands you? Like you’re all alone? Like your spirit has a will of its own, but
the body is weak? Like you’re completely caged up? Plato knew just how you
feel.
Thousands of years ago, Plato,
the Philosopher King, did not like his body. Nor anyone else’s for that
matter. According to Plato, the
inner-self, the real person, was
trapped in and cursed with a physical body prone to illness, injury, and all
sorts of degrading wants and temptations.
He believed the only escape from this horrid cage was death, which would
finally grant the soul true freedom.
