A true world account of the proper course of our lives is a kind of story, a narrative. One of the first and most influential true world philosophies in Western history was forged in the mind of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. For Plato, the meaning of life is to turn away from our senses, temper our emotions, and through the development of our intellect grasp the forms that exist in the world of being. This is the path to truth, to enlightenment, and to the elimination of suffering. But let us attend for now to Christianity. According to Nietzsche, according to St. Paul's grafting of Jesus' ethics onto Greek metaphysics, Christian worldview is basically a version of Platonism