Thus, centuries apart and in two different ancient cities, the oral teacher Socrates and the oral preacher and teacher Jesus of Nazareth were both put to death by the local civic authorities.
Now, yes, Plato was Socrates' student in ancient Athens, and his student wrote extensively about his former teacher in many of his famous dialogues. Regardless of just how prominent Plato makes Socrates in his dialogues, Plato is basically committed in his famous dialogues to setting forth his own philosophy.
In my life, I have learned a lot from the political scientist Eric Voegelin's books The World of the Polis (1957a) and Plato and Aristotle (1957b) - both of which Voegelin carefully researched and published after he had carefully researched and published his book Israel and Revelation (1956).
In Voegelin's 1957 book Plato and Aristotle, Voegelin draws our attention to Aristotle's use of the Greek term spoudaios (pp. 300, 303, 313, 320, 323, 327, and 335f.). But Aristotle's Greek term is not readily translated into a single term in English. Roughly, it means the mature man (and in our day, also the mature woman) as Aristotle conceives of the mature person.
For me today, I think of the mature person as the person who is accessing the optimal and positive forms of the eight archetypes of maturity that the late Jungian psychotherapist and psychological theorist Robert Moore (1942-2016; Ph.D. in psychology and religion, University of Chicago, 1975) has written about.
With Douglas Gillette as his co-author, Robert Moore published the following five books about the four masculine archetypes of maturity and their accompanying eight "shadow" forms in the 1990s:
(1) King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine (1990);
(2) The King Within: Accessing the King [Archetype] in the Male Psyche (1992a);
(3) The Warrior Within: Accessing the Knight [Archetype] in the Male Psyche (1992b);
(4) The Magician Within: Accessing the Shaman [Archetype] in the Male Psyche (1993a);
(5) The Lover Archetype: Accessing the lover [Archetype] in the Male Psyche (1993b).
According to Robert Moore's theory of the archetypes of maturity, all girls and women also have the four masculine archetypes of maturity in their psyches.
In addition, according to Robert Moore's theory of the archetypes of maturity, all girls and women, and all boys and men, also have the following four feminine archetypes of maturity in their psyches:
(1) the Queen archetype of maturity;
(2) the feminine Warrior/Knight archetype of maturity;
(3) the feminine Magician/Shaman archetype of maturity;
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