Two Worlds: Dike and Philia
Plato says, there is the real world, Dike (Justice), and the Real world, Philia (Love), and although one can cross over between the two worlds, they remain separate. Justitia is a symbol for these two worlds.
Justitia
The symbol of the Blind Lady represents the two distinct worlds and yet she also represents the ability to move from one world to another world. The blindfold represents the Real world where no Judgements are made; the scales represent the real world where Judgements are made.
The Dike World
The real world is the world of the here and now, the world of our physical senses, all of which are organized, realized, and actualized in our brain. If our brain stops functioning, our senses stop functioning. If some of our senses stop functioning, our brain does not stop functioning.
In this world, the essential word is “judgement.” In this world, our brain makes judgement constantly and judgements guide our actions, our senses, our language.
A Truth, a Fact, is based on Judgement, and Judgements are Subjective. If two people are sitting at a round table with a red rose in the center of the table, one person will see the flower, its color, shape, and smell from their point of view, the other person will see it from another point of view. Both will call their view True, both will call their view a Fact, and both will be accurate. What is True and Factual for one is not true and accurate for the other.
The Virtues of the real world: Wisdom, Temperance, Justice, and Courage.
The Philia World
The Real world is not the world of the here and now, it is not governed by our senses or our brain. It is not rational, or truthful, or factual. It is governed by our Spirit, our Soul, our Heart, and it is as real as our brain but does not depend on, or come from, our brain.
The Real world is the world we live in where there are no judgements, no opinions or facts or truths. The Real world is governed by Beauty. It is a world where no words are spoken, no sound is heard, no sight is seen. All is felt and known and realized.
The Virtues of the Real World: Faith, Hope, Charity, and Love
The Problem
Some people live in the Real world all the time; they are called Saints. Some people live in the real world all the time; they are called Demons.
Most people live between the Real world and real world; they are called Human.
The real world is for those people who think in Black and White and find judgement good and natural and normal. The Real world is for people who do not think in Black and White, but in Gray, and who will not judge others.
The Essential Problem: Being able to distinguish the two worlds one from the other, and confusing one with the other.
The Question
Which world do we live in most of the time, and how do we not get stuck?
The Answer
Humans must transcend the real world to the Real world and then blend the two into One World. Plato tells Humanity how to do this, particularly in the Symposium.
Keats makes the point clear when he says:
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty, – that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to
Know.”
John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn
Keats equates the two worlds, the Real world (Beauty) and the real world (Truth) and blends them into One world.
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