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What one must grasp - and it is only with great struggle, with fear and trembling, that this becomes comprehensible - is that Greek "works" of the spirit (as wrought by human hand and mind) cannot be interpreted. They cannot be interpreted, for they do not possess that structure of principles which demands interpretation. The first principle of interpretation holds that a text, a work, an individual, a community expresses and involves sovereign existence which can be interpreted from itself alone.
Socrates never holds and it would have been inconceivable for the Greeks to have held - that it is better, that the good thing to do is, to will the good universally for all. In the Republic's version of the Socratic dictum that it is better to suffer evil than to do evil, that might is right, Socrates identifies in logos, in the logic of possibility, political power with philosophical rule: the philosopher-king. Callicles, in contrast, in holding that it is better to do evil than to suffer evil, immediately identifies right with might, in the tradition of actual Greek heroism as we find it celebrated in Homeric epic and then pushed to its shatteringly contradictory extremes in the drama of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes.
When Spinoza undertakes to separate philosophy from theology in the Tractatus, he systematically eliminates from his conception of philosophy (thought or reason) the Platonist notion of final cause - the notion that the end of man is fatally other than thoughtful existence. With the eradication of teleology the logic 26 Philosophy as Biblical Interpretation of existence (its necessary rationality) is liberated from the law of contradiction. Spinoza equally eliminates from his conception of theology - centred, above all, on God as the exemplar of true life, the necessary existence of humanity - all finite or what he calls superstitious conceptions of space and time, those of imagination and memory immediately dependent on the picture images of sense perception.