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The Universe of Platonic Thought
Универсум платоновской мысли

29th International Conference  ·  XXVIII Международная конференция
24–25 June 2021   St Petersburg, Russia  ·  24–25 июня 2021   Санкт-Петербург, Россия

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Afonasin Eugene, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Institute of Philosophy and Law of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk, Russia), Head of Department; Novosibirsk State University (Novosibirsk, Russia), Professor

"How philosophers saved myths?" Chapter Two: the Platonists   ·   Recorded Video

Arsentev Nikita Alexeyevich; Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia), Student

Rational Theology in Cambridge Platonism: Henry More, Ralph Cudworth   ·   Recorded Video

Artemev Timur, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; North-Western State Medical University named after I. I. Mechnikov (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Man's Path to Perfection by Plato   ·   Recorded Video

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Barysheva Olga; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Fellow

Ways of interpreting grammatical rules: Byzantine commentaries to the "Introduction" of Theodosius

Begichev Aleksandr; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

"National gods" and Their Place in the Ontology of Emperor Julian   ·   Recorded Video

Biriukov Dmitry, DSc in Philosophy; Sociological Institute, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Fellow

Sources of the "formula of hesychasm" in "Imyaslavie" (1921-1922) by Alexey Losev   ·   Recorded Video

Biriukov Dmitry, DSc in Philosophy; Institute of Philosophy and Law of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk, Russia), Research Fellow

Two views on Byzantium among the older Slavophiles and the Greek-Bulgarian question   ·   Recorded Video

Biriukov Dmitry, DSc in Philosophy; National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), Research Fellow

The status of apophatic statements about God in the 2nd letter of Gregory Palamas to Barlaam of Calabria

Bityutskaya Alla Albertovna; Voronezh State University (Voronezh, Russia), Lecturer

Free theurgy of the Silver Age

Bogomolov Alexey Vladimirovich, CSc in Philosophy; Kozma Minin Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University — Minin University (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Associate Professor

Greek apophaticism: origins and typology in the Pre-Socratic onto-theology   ·   Recorded Video

Boitsov Aleksandr, CSc in Biology, Independent scholar

What unites us?    ·   Recorded Video

Botka Georgii Nikolaevich; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Religion in the philosophy of Protagoras   ·   Recorded Video

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Charykova Karina Sergeyevna; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), MA or MSc

Ηymns of the Maundy Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of Kosmas the Melodos (1st half of the 8th century): some percularities of composition and content   ·   Recorded Video

Chernoglazov Dmitri, CSc in Philology; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

The concepts of "homonymy", "synonymy" and "paronymy" in late antique grammar and logic   ·   Recorded Video

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Dorofeev Daniil, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; St Petersburg Mining University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Head of the Department of Philosophy, Professor

"Rational" and mystical in the image of the ancient and medieval saint philosopher   ·   Recorded Video

Dyomin Rostislav; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Lecturer

Theology, Philosophy, and Astronomy by Philip of Opus and Astro-theology by William Derham   ·   Recorded Video

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Fedorov Denis, CSc in Social science; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

"Against Justice": Cicero as a Textual Source and Interpreter of Testimonies about the "Philosophical Embassy" and the Carneades’ Skeptical Speeches

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Galanin Rustam, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Independent scholar

The Theology of Critias the Tyrant     ·   Recorded Video

Garadja Alexei; Russian State University for Humanities (Moscow, Russia), Major Research Fellow

Plato’s onomastica: mysterial contexts

Glushko Sergey Pavlovich; Tomsk State University (Tomsk, Russia), Student

The problem of the correlation of creativity and the perfect being in the philosophical theology of N. O. Lossky   ·   Recorded Video

Goncharko Oksana, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Researcher

Icon veneration as theology: from Plato to Joseph of Volotsk   ·   Recorded Video

Goncharko Dmitry, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Researcher; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Semantics, semiotics and logics in theology of Dionysius the Areopagite

Gravin Artyom Andreevich, CSc in Technics; Sociological Institute, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Researcher

Manifestation and non-manifestation in Young Symbolists’ language practices   ·   Recorded Video

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Iakimenko Artem, CSc in Theology; LRO Parish Church of St. Alexy the Man of God in Gorelovo, St. Petersburg (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), priest

Plato's idealism and the concepts of general and particular nature among the Chalcedonites and Monophysites   ·   Recorded Video

Ishchenko Nina Sergeevna, CSc in Philosophy; Lugansk State Academy of Culture and Arts named by M. Matusovsky (Lugansk, LPR, Russia), Assistant Professor

Platonic Images in 'The Enchanted Wandered' by N. Leskov

Ismiyeva Valeriya, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Institute of World Civilizations (Moscow, Russia), Associate Professor

The experience of Ascent to the Eidetic: Platonic motifs in A. Tavrov's poem "The Dante Project" (2014)

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Karavaeva Svetlana, CSc in Philosophy; North-Western State Medical University named after I. I. Mechnikov (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Assistant Professor

Receptions of Platonism in the cosmology of Virgil's Aeneid

Kargaltsev Alexey, CSc in History; Institute of the philosophy of a human, Herzen University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Senior Lecturer

Intellectual background of the Early Christian Martyrs based on "The Passion of Perpetua and Felicitata"   ·   Recorded Video

Katrechko Sergey Leonidovich, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; State Academic University for the Humanities (Moscow, Russia), Associate Professor; Russian Orthodox University of St. John the Theologian (Moscow, Russia), Head of Department

Transcendental method of Plato's ontotheology   ·   Recorded Video

Khamidov Alisher; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Researcher

Aristotle and Theophrastus on Phronesis and Unseasonableness   ·   Recorded Video

Khmara Igor; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

Social Topology Of The Late Antique Alexandria Thought   ·   Recorded Video

Khoshev Andrew, CSc in Technics; Russian Orthodox University of St. John the Theologian (Moscow, Russia), Student

Neoplatonic origins of the ontological argument as interpreted by R.G. Collingwood and S. Frank   ·   Recorded Video

Kovalenko Mikhail Alexeevich; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Chora: situation on the edge of polemic   ·   Recorded Video

Kurbanov Andrey, CSc in History; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Assistant

Spyridonova Lydia, CSc in History; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Assistant

Plato in the Сommentary on the poems of Gregory of Nazianzus by Cosmas of Maiuma

Kurdybaylo Dmitry, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Researcher; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Major Research Fellow

Mathematical and Theurgic Symbols in the writings of Iamblichus   ·   Recorded Video

Kutuzova Anastasia; Pitirim Sorokin Syktyvkar State University (Syktyvkar, Russia), Lecturer

Rational theology and the Cult of Reason and the Supreme Being of the Great French Revolution at the end of the 18th century.

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Levina Tatiana, CSc in Philosophy; Free University (Moscow, Russia), lecturer

Byzantium of Avant-Garde: Uncreated Light and Dazzling Darkness   ·   Recorded Video

Likhter Pavel, CSc in Law; Penza State University (Penza, Russia), Associate Professor

On essential and relegated justice in Plato's "Republic"

Lisovich Inna, DSc in Culture science, Associate Professor; Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Moscow, Russia), Associate Research Fellow

Natural magic and platonism in the european culture of early Modern period.   ·   Recorded Video

Lushnikov Dmitri, CSc in Theology, Associate Professor; Saint Petersburg Theological Academy (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Head of theHead of the Department of Theology

Platonism in the doctrine of the principles of theological knowledge of Archbishop Nicanor Brovkovich’s fundamental theology   ·   Recorded Video

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Makovetsky Eugene Anatolievich, DSc in Philosophy; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor; Sociological Institute, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Research Fellow

Vision of St. Eulogios in the context of the Iconoclast controversy

Martynov Roman; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

The mythological image of Prometheus in rational thought   ·   Recorded Video

Migush Egor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Platonism in the works of Vincenzo Gioberti   ·   Recorded Video

Mochalova Irina, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

The trial of Socrates: politics and/or religion?

Mursky Vadim, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), assistant professor

The foundations of rational theology among the Eleats.

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Narovetskii Maksim; Department of Philosophy, FEB RAS (Vladivostok, Russia), Researcher

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Platonic Myth or the Story of Christ?   ·   Recorded Video

Nikulin Maksim Sergeevich; Institute of the philosophy of a human, Herzen University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate; Saint Petersburg Theological Academy (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Senior Lecturer; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Senior Lecturer

Noology of Plotinus as an essay of rational theology   ·   Recorded Video

Nogovitsin Oleg Nikolaevich, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Sociological Institute, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Senior Researcher

Argumentation by analogy in the philosophy and theology of John Philoponus   ·   Recorded Video

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Ovsyannikov Maxim; Russian State University for Humanities (Moscow, Russia), Postgraduate

The religious images in works by Jean Delville within the context of Plato's theology

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Panteleev Aleksey D., CSc in History, Associate Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Ponikarovskaya Marina Vladimirovna, CSc in History; the Saint-Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), academic secretary

Actors and the State: from Plato to the Roman Empire   ·   Recorded Video

Petrova Liubov, CSc in Philosophy; Sociological Institute, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Senior Researcher

Platonism and palamism in sophiology of Sergei Bulgakov   ·   Recorded Video

Pleshkov Aleksei, CSc in Philosophy; National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities, Director

Accidental Eternity: Plato's Criticism and the Temporal Status of Mind in Anaxagoras

Pogoniailo Alexander, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

St Paul’s Establishment and Adversus iudaeos in occidental patristics

Prikhodko Maxim, CSc in Philosophy; The Parish of St. Nicolas Russian Orthodox Church (Seville, Spain), priest

A Conversation with God on the plain or the Logos and Nature in the Interpretation of the Figure of Isaac by Philo of Alexandria

Prokopov Kirill; National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), Assistant Professor

Plato's individual eschatology: rationalization or mythopoeia?   ·   Recorded Video

Protopopova Irina Aleksandrovna , CSc in Culturology, Associate Professor; Platonic Research Center (Moscow, Russia), Head; Russian State University for Humanities (Moscow, Russia), Major Research Fellow

The Philosophical Mystery as Plato's Theology   ·   Recorded Video

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Rassadin Sergey Valentinovich, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Tver State Technical University (Tver, Russia), Professor; RAS Institute of Philosophy (Moscow, Russia), Postgraduate

Kozlova Nataliya Nikolaevna, DSc in Political science, Associate Professor; Tver State University (Tver, Russia), Head of Chair

Plato’s Theological Myth as a Tool for Constructing the «Happy Policy»

Rokhmistrov Vladimir, MPhil

Parmenides's Shadow in Plato's Dialogues

Romanenko Yuriy, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

The Symbolism of Number in the Ontotheological Discourse.   ·   Recorded Video

Ryapolov Sergey, CSc in Philosophy; Moscow State Institute of Culture (Khimki, Russia), senior lecturer

The image of the heroic in the classic games of the Doom series

Ryapolov Sergey, CSc in Philosophy; Moscow State Institute of Culture (Khimki, Russia), senior lecturer

Platonic motifs in the works of I.S. Turgenev

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Semikolennykh Maria, CSc in Culturology; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Researcher

Basilios Bessarion on Plato's polytheism

Serkova Vera , DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

Time in the dialog "Timaeus”

Shchepanovskaya Siyana; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), MA; Saint-Petersburg University of Culture and Art (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

Philosopher Plato as the inventor and inspired ambassador of the philosophical mythcreation

Shcherbakov Fedor Borisovitch, CSc in Philosophy; St Petersburg Mining University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), assistent

When Homer ceased to laugh: Epic humor and ways of its apology in antique allegorism and symbolism

Shcherbakov Fedor Borisovitch, CSc in Philosophy; St Petersburg Mining University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), assistent

ΣΩΜΑ, ΛΟΓΟΣ and ΑΡΙΘΜΟΣ as three meta-objects of antique scholarship   ·   Recorded Video

Shchukin Timur; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate; Sociological Institute, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Research Fellow

Gregory Palamas' criticism of Plato's Ideas   ·   Recorded Video

Shevtsov Alexander, DSc in Psychology, Professor, Professor

Mythological origins of rational theology   ·   Recorded Video

Shklyar Evgeni Leonidovich; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

The meaning of life through the philosophy of Plato   ·   Recorded Video

Shurunov Konstantin; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

Pre-comprehension of the scientific method in Meno.   ·   Recorded Video

Sinitsyn Alexander, CSc in History, Associate Professor; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Researcher

Plato and historians about logographoi and logopoioi

Slobodkovsky Sergey; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

Probability in Roman Epic.   ·   Recorded Video

Slobodkovsky Sergey; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

Roman and Jewish messianism   ·   Recorded Video

Sobolnikova Elena, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; North-Western State Medical University named after I. I. Mechnikov (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

The idea of the Monism of Timaios of Locri "On the nature of the world and the soul"   ·   Recorded Video

Sorokina Marina; Institute of the philosophy of a human, Herzen University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate; Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University (Veliky Novgorod, Russia), Teacher

Love or Kill Your Teacher   ·   Recorded Video

Sotnikova Nadezhda, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor, assistant professor

“Plato as theologist” in the writings of W. Windelband   ·   Recorded Video

Spyridonova Lydia, CSc in History; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Assistant

Kurbanov Andrey, CSc in History; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Assistant

Logic’s manuals of the circle of Gerasimos Vlachos

Stavtseva Olga, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Leningrad State University named after A. S. Pushkin (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy

Reception of Socrates at S. Kierkegaard   ·   Recorded Video

Stepanova Anna, DSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

Ancient intellectual tradition about peace and god (from Plato to Cicero)   ·   Recorded Video

Svetlov Roman, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Institute of the philosophy of a human, Herzen University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Director

Irony, Slyness, or a Neoplatonic Theologumen? God the Creator in a letter from Julian the Apostate to the Jewish community

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Tantlevskij Igor, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Head of Department

On a possible parallel between the Qumran creationist doctrine and the cosmogony of Anaxagoras

Tantlevskij Igor, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Head of Department

Features of Qumran “Prophetism”

Tantlevskij Igor, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Head of Department

Qumran scepticism and ways to overcome it

Tonkovidova Anna Viktorovna; Kuban State University of Physical Education, Sports and Tourism (Krasnodar, Russia), Senior Lecturer

S.N.Bulgakov: reception of Plato's philosophy in Russian religious philosophy   ·   Recorded Video

Tonoyan Larisa, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Researcher

The Tree of Porphyry: Logic and Theology   ·   Recorded Video

Trimble Walker, PhD; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Plato's Timaeus and the doctrine of the four humours   ·   Recorded Video

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Varlamova Maria, CSc in Philosophy; Saint-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Fellow; RAS Institute of Philosophy (Moscow, Russia), Associate Research Fellow

Nature, body and pneuma: soul and it’s underlying body in Philoponus   ·   Recorded Video

Vinogradov Dmitry Alexandrovich; Institute of the philosophy of a human, Herzen University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Researcher

About origins and results of rational theology    ·   Recorded Video

Vorobyev Valery, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Researcher

John Damascene. Institutio elementaris ad dogmata   ·   Recorded Video

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Zemlyakov Gleb Sergeevich; St Alexius College of humanitarian and socio-pedagogical disciplines (Tolyatti, Russia), The teacher

About two ways of saying about «Existence» in the philosophy of Parmenid

Zemtsova Ekaterina; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

West of the pillars of Hercules: the myth of Atlantis in the context of ancient social utopia   ·   Recorded Video

29th International Conference “The Universe of Platonic Thought: Rational Theology in Platonism”

Aleksandr Boitsov, CSc in Biology, Independent scholar

What unites us? 

It turns out that the soul is arranged in such a surprisingly symmetrical way that it becomes possible to speak of the existence of certain invariants of phenomenological experience. This conclusion was made based on the dialogues of Plato with the only additional assumption - about the "economy of the mind".  Consequences are proposed for discussion.

Keywords: Brahman, Atman, Plato, Parmenides, soul, structure, symmetry

What unites all of us? The answer suggests itself - nothing, “the nothing”. This is the correct answer, although not very clear. However, there can be no other answer at the initial stage of reflection, when only the cognitive ability of one's own soul - dunamis - is recognized as implicitly existing.  This means that the cognized itself - “the nothing” - is also recognized as existing. 


Then the logos leads to the hypothesis that the soul unites us. Because the soul is arranged in such a surprisingly symmetrical way that it becomes possible to speak of the existence of certain invariants of phenomenological experience. That is, the very structure of the soul provides the possibility of a third-person perspective. We made this conclusion on the basis of Plato's dialogues with the only additional assumption - about the "economy of the mind".


But this is not enough for a meaningful answer to the original question.  After all, when “the nothing” is manifested in the soul by the power of knowledge - for each of us in his own way and independently of the others - the emerging picture is about the same for everyone, and only for this reason we are able to discuss a picture of the world common to all. Hence, the symmetry of the soul alone is not enough to explain this state of affairs.  It is generally meaningless if, as a result of cognition, everyone has not just their own individual world, but a fundamentally different world. This means that “the nothing” is one for everyone. Only this assumption allows you to make ends meet.


That is, we are united by the One, as well as by the uniform symmetry of our souls. We both know one thing, and we can take the point of view of another in order to understand how the world appears to him. So, it is possible to talk about the absolute Soul, cognizing itself, cognizing the One. Hence, it follows that the Soul is above all.  Hence, the Good is the Soul. Brahman is Atman, Atman is Brahman.

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