Plato’s otherworldly identity framework was engineered to cancel death

Evidence

The great accomplishment of Plato and the key to the enormous influence his system exerted was the creation of an intellectual framework for an otherworldly identity which claimed to cancel death. This accomplishment answered to the demands of a number of cultural forces and social groups in Plato’s period and in later periods, most obviously those of the warrior (and in transmuted form, those of the slave). — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 376

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The warrior-hero’s choice of honour over life structures Plato’s devaluation of nature — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 377; Realist and idealist philosophies conceive death differently as non-human limit or humanized ending; Plato’s otherworldly identity serves the master, not only the slave — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 379

Broader Connections

• Plato’s otherworldly identity serves the master, not only the slave #expands (0.82) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 379
• Realist and idealist philosophies conceive death differently as non-human limit or humanized ending #complicates (0.75)