In Augustine's view, we live in what he calls the region of unlikeness, and what we're unlike is God. |
According to Separation, like things are like by partaking of a separate form of likeness and unlike things are unlike by partaking of a separate form of unlikeness. |
Adjectives signifying profit or disprofit, likeness or unlikeness govern the dative. |
As Socrates emphasizes, it is possible for sensible things to partake of both likeness and unlikeness, and hence be both like and unlike. |
Friendship requires that rare mean betwixt likeness and unlikeness that piques each with the presence of power and of consent in the other party. |
This is a good measure of Gould's achievement — that he made an unlikeness seem a likeness. |