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Squaring the Circle: The Black Dot as Contemporary Chōra

A guest article by author of Plato ReImagined, Daniel Sanderson

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May 16, 2025
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This philosophical creative fiction re-examines Plato's Ring of Gyges through the lens of Timaeus' chōra - the formless receptacle of being. When an office worker encounters a topological anomaly in a photocopied document, we witness the collapse of Aristotelian substance-accident categories and the terrifying fluidity of moral frameworks in the absence…

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