The Platonic inversion of truth from a faithful rendition of the experienced to the precise rendition of the ideal is the moment when philosophy shifts from the right hemisphere to the left, when Dionysius yields to Apollo, and when the mind replaces the experience of beauty in the world with the experience of the sublime workings of the mind's own mechanisms.
The world turns ugly and the senses become untrustworthy while the mind turns innocent and the powers of reasoning become the highest form of experience.
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