done, simply confirming that dimension which Plato (and, following him, the Church Fathers) had attributed to the questioning human mind: as a result of that distance from the world, which the question makes possible, man touches on the area of the theion, however much he may be governed by worldly principles in other respects. We recall Plato’s attempt, in defining the individual’s role in the theatre of the world, to answer the question “Who am I?” through a combination of elements of personal