Necessary Wisdom
Plato, Necessity, and the World of Percomboo I recently visited the Royal Academy of Arts exhibition in London. In the accompanying images, the figure of Plato approaches—bringing with him those fundamental questions that were already relevant more than two thousand years ago, and perhaps are even more so today. Two quotations from Plato’s Republic : “Our need will be the real creator.” (Book I) “The object of education is not to put knowledge into the soul that was not there before, but to turn the soul toward the light.” (Book VII) Along these two ideas, I would like to illuminate the perspective of Percomboo. 1. The Path of Percomboo – When Form Is Born from Necessity Form is not born from imitation, but from necessity. Necessity is the true creator. Every human life is different. From this it follows that needs are also different. Individuality is not a mystical concept; it is simply the sum of individual needs and capacities. No matter how much...