Metaxis is the Greek word used by Plato to describe the condition of in-between which is a structural feature of the human condition - that human beings are suspended in a web of polarities - unity and plurality, eternity and time, freedom and destiny, instinct and intellect, risk and safetylove and hatred, to name only a few. The human being, until the modern era sees itself as a polarity such as comprising both angel and beast, a spiritual being with aspirations and transcendental longings for the eternity that you refined at the same time tangled with a problematic body, driven instinct that suffers and dies.
