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Does Platonian mind really equates to spirit?
No, that was me trying to make it easy.
Did he not say that the material world is illusion and false, and true world is the world of idea? So rather than spirit, mind is the epistemological implications, i.e. the conceived world, highest form of true world?
Lets call it ' a type of 'Neoplatonism' then. Mind is air, pnuema ( breath, life, spirit,) and 'spirit' (not that the Greeks used that English word, they had many words for a similar but different concepts and 'form' is the highest, the 'essence' of form being the highest form. The essence of a thing is it's spirit. Its hard to nut out simply using English words.
One way to start a preliminary look is to ask a bunch of random people ( white western non-Platonists) what they think 'spirit' is or means. Chances are , you will get the biggest gunk of uneducated gobbledegook you have heard !
I will leave it in its simple stage. I have previously been abused, insulted, complained about, reported and suspended here for, amongst other things, deeply debating philosophy, linking to texts demonstrating proofs , having a methodical step by step analysis and response to ideas in a post, and not allowed to use non-English words or phrases etc. - thats not allowed ... apparently .
Anyway, what's here should suffice for tarot purposes .
The 'philosophy' here is that everyone and all opinions are right. There is no debate at all in Platonism that that is a false assumption ! So, philosophy and method aren't going to work here.