"Shakespeares Philosophical Theatre: Plays and Poetry for all Seasons" Summary of Chapter 4 featured in "The Delphic Podcasts" by Michael R D James: Season 15 Episode 5

The Symbolism of confessional language is to be compared with the symbolism of many of Shakespeares soliloquys where transcendental intentions reach back to the origin of all things and forward to a future end or telos of things. Freuds religious views are more iconoclastic than Kants views which seeks to retore a role for religion within the bounds of Reason. There is an apparent conflict between the Holy and the Just which Socrates addresses in Plato's dialogue, "Euthyphro". Civilisation building projects must be influenced by a telos of a Culture or morally governed whole which is necessary if  civilisation is not to descend into a state of ruin and destructionhttp://michaelrdjames.orgDelphic Podcast