>>6389697Plato in many ways is key to reviving the spirit in the west, at least as a starting point towards true Christianity. Many of the better mathematicians, physicists, and artists out there have a certain feeling--or knowing--that the things they produce are actually discoveries. That is the calculus, the phythagorean theorem, the mandelbrot set, were not inventions but revelations of eternal divine order. Even Michelangelo posited that his David was already in the marble, made by god, and his job was to reveal it.
May sound cheesy or new agey, but this type of metaphysic and philosophy leads us to meaning and truth, and that's how civilization really happens. When Spencer ranted about taking back Constantinople, it resonated, but why? Why would any atheist want Constantinople? Why would an agnostic empiricist care about such things? The spirit is already there in everyone who was turned on by that little rant he did. They just need to fully realize and develop it, and give grounds for a revival of this western civilization thing everyone's dreaming about.
