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120. ^ Republic, 517. »^ Phaedo, 79 ff. ^ Ibid. 80. This notion of "death" occurs in Novalis. Indeed he made a "reso- lution" thus to die. And in a letter to Friedrich Schlegel (January 20, 1799) he speaks of the longing of Christianity as "absolute Abstraktion, Annihilation des Jetztigen, Apotheose der Zukunft — dieser eigentlichen bessern Welt. " CLASSIC AND ROMANTIC TRENDS IN PLATO 223 realm. Appearances, apparitions, shadows, ghosts — the "many" — are when taken by themselves weird, gro- te...sque, bizarre; interpreted, however, as suggestions of a reality other and deeper than themselves they become instinct with spiritual significance. It is the particular as particular which is unspiritual, sordid, corrupt; as sign or medium of a universal nature it is raised to a differ- ent level. Thus Plato's doctrine of love may be inter- preted. The ideal of love, revealed by Diotima in the Symposium, is to attain true beauty, "the divine beauty, . . . Pure and clear and unalloyed, not clogged with the pollutions of mortality and all the colours and vanities of human life.
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