On Being in One’s Right Mind

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy   Repentance Metanoia[1] usually rendered by “repentance,” is literally “change of mind,” or intellectual metamorphosis. Plato does not use the word, but certainly knows the thing: for example, in Republic 514f., the values of those who have seen the light are completely transformed, and, in Laws 803c–804a, we are told that those…