For the first class, however, our discussion question is a bit more theoretical. It was a gathering of old university friends, not as we are now but as we were thirty years ago, a … To see through a glass darkly—a dim mirror or lens, Plato's cave of shadows—this is life as seen through a haze of mental illness, medications, and a mind constantly shifting from one perspective to another, but never seeing anything quite clearly. For like glass, Evestrum is both visible and invisible, shadow and substance that transmits dark images from plane to plane of reality. But better, yes, and hopefully growing. It also means that Plato’s Demiurge is a superfluous concept; a poor substitute for the God who makes all things from nothing. The title for this time-traveling quantum science poem comes from St. Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians wherein he tells his new flock that for now we see as through a glass darkly. Through a Glass Darkly examines the thought of Richard Rorty and Bernard Lonergan on the posibility of knowledge without a god's-eye view. “(As human beings) We see everything everything in a glass, darkly. Featured Art: Black Hole Accretion Disk by XMM-Newton, ESA’s X-ray space observatory NASA [Public domain] via Wikimedia Commons. .Perhaps I stabbed our SaviorIn His sacred helpless side.Yet Ive called His name in blessing. from Eavesdropping in Plato’s Café. MEH 0910 says: December 14, 2012 at 6:20 am It is a subject that spans cultures, religions, time and space, and one that resists easy categorical definition. Sometimes we can peer through the glass and catch a glimpse of what is on the other side. From Ingmar Bergman to George S. Patton. Rorty, one of the most influential contemporary thinkers, exposes the utter contingency of all philosophical solutions and intuitions. So, that line that “we now see as through a glass darkly,” has made me wonder if Paul wasn’t familiar with Plato’s cave. From the Rolling Stones to Mike Sussman. It’s tailor-made for crime fiction. The future is seen in terms of the past as `through a glass darkly'. In a therapeutic narrative the past breaks through into the future, opening fate to chance and enhancing personal agency. But one thing is for sure. As such, in many ways, Plato was on the right track, but the specifics of biblical theism he didn’t have access to better explain many of the things he ‘saw as through a glass darkly’. But then we would no longer see ourselves.” — 26 likes The quote is a portion of a Bible verse from the King James version of the Bible, 1 Corinthians Chap 13 verse 12: "For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known."