Editor’s note: Sixth in a series. The previous essay concluded on a new note: the idea of a moral universe, and I have returned to Plato as my guide. Plato did not suppose that a moral universe is a world where everyone may expect rewards for their good deeds and punishments for their evil ones, now or hereafter. Rather, he imagined something higher and nobler; a universe in which Goodness itself is the beginning and end of everything. It is this sort of world that he describes in “The Republic.” “The Repub … (read more)
