Rhetoric and Psychology lost their characters at the end of the 1800's and this was due to a loss of commitment to ancient institutions usch as the Church and a waning of commitment to the Rationality of the Ancient Greek and Enlightenment Philosophy of Kant. Herder claims that Shakespeare soul is aging and withering. The Platonic dialogues relating to the trial and last days of Socrates have not aged but it is not yet clear whether this will also eventually be the case for the work of Shakespeare

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The Symbolism of confessional language is to be compared with the symbolism of many of Shakespeares soliloquys where transcendental intentions reach back to the origin of all things and forward to a future end or telos of things. Freuds religious views are more iconoclastic than Kants views which seeks to retore a role for religion within the bounds of Reason. There is an apparent conflict between the Holy and the Just which Socrates addresses in Plato's dialogue, "Euthyphro". Civilisation building projects must be influenced by a telos of a Culture or morally governed whole which is necessary if civilisation is not to descend into a state of ruin and destruction

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T S Eliot did not believe Shakespeares work to be Philosophical because of his view that Religion and Philosophy shared an intimate relation which the Ancient Greeks did not believe was the case. The Ancient Greek Gods praised what is just more than what was holy and the trinity of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were in agreement. Our Western Christian Religion views mans soul as flawed with sin, requiring the worship of of a Superior Being which in the eyes of many modern Philosophers may be merely a figment of our imaginations given the lack of belief in one universal God.

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