
Published online:
10 March 2011
Published in print:
01 September 2004
Online ISBN:
9780823235117
Print ISBN:
9780823223503
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1. The Place of the PlacelessClose 1. The Place of the PlacelessClose
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2. Situations 2. Situations
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3. Deductions 3. Deductions
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Cite
Bigger, Charles P., 'Elementals', Between Chora and the Good: Metaphor's Metaphysical Neighborhood (New York, NY , 2004; online edn, Fordham Scholarship Online, 10 Mar. 2011), https://doi.org/10.5422/fso/9780823223503.003.0011, accessed 28 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
This chapter examines Plato's view on the Virgin Mary and the Holy Family. It explains that Trinitarian pluralism can better accommodate Plato's Holy Family and that in his Agathon Plato suggested that the birth of love meant that it has replaced the god's strife. The chapter suggests that in spite of fashionable relativisms, it is important to preserve the Good's absoluteness against the threat of nihilism, radical historism, and sophistry.
Keywords:
Plato, Virgin Mary, Holy Family, Trinitarian pluralism, love, nihilism, radical historism, sophistry
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