Talk:Macrocosm and microcosm
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This article has an extreme Western bias. The concept of microcosm/macrocosm is at the heart of traditional Chinese philosophy, completely unrelated to its Greek parallel. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.69.75.230 (talk) 14:22, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
I would think that Lord of the Flies is a strong, obvious and well-known modern microcosm.
In paragraph 2, I think we need to explain that Socrates is always a character in Plato's writing - it might be a bit confusing for anyone unfamiliar with Plato's work. This is the sentence I don't like:
"At §368, Socrates mentions that this virtue is “spoken as a virtue of an individual, and sometimes as the virtue of the state” and that it would be easier to discern its essence if one looked at the State because it would have a larger quantity of it and then proceeding back down into the individual to see how it appears in the smaller unit.""
See what I mean?
Moonpilot 17:15, 31 July 2007 (UTC)Moonpilot
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There are two problems with this page which I don't have time to fix right now. 1. it links to itself 2. it says nothing about the alchemical significance of the two words.
- alchemy is mentioned in the article, I'm presuming you edited it?
