Reknow

The teacher’s special function is to lead the pupil to reknow these elements, and by thought to attain the desired knowledge.

In recognizing one another in our aesthetic constructs, in coming to reknow one another, we come to reknow ourselves as well.

It is a story of human beings constantly reknowing themselves as the reciprocal of the self-reknowing of others.

And only then, when he has recovered his true self, does he uncover, or reknow, the true distinctions, identifying erōs as a divine gift, and distinguishing between “good” and “bad” madness—a distinction that is essential if human beings are to have a true understanding of themselves and what they experience in love.