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  • What did Plato believe?

    From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to All on Tue Nov 24 09:33:54 2020
    https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=%22The+question+what+Plato+believed+is+inevitably+and+highly+controversial.%22

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  • From Ed Cryer@21:1/5 to gggg gggg on Tue Nov 24 19:27:19 2020
    gggg gggg wrote:
    https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=%22The+question+what+Plato+believed+is+inevitably+and+highly+controversial.%22


    I think that anyone of good sense who reads Plato can't help but
    conclude that he had a vast intellect. And that the common prejudiced
    view of a right-wing authoritarian is wildly wrong.

    "Platonism" was only one of an immense number of possibilities that he surveyed. The history of philosophy is just footnotes to Plato (Alfred
    North Whitehead, I believe).

    Along the same lines, look at a modern philosopher and the rash
    prejudice against him.
    Kant. He limited knowledge in order to allow room for God.

    Ed

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  • From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to gggg gggg on Tue Nov 24 13:05:58 2020
    On Tuesday, November 24, 2020 at 7:33:55 AM UTC-10, gggg gggg wrote:
    https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=%22The+question+what+Plato+believed+is+inevitably+and+highly+controversial.%22

    According to this:

    - ...the Protagorean dictum 'man is the measure of all things' (Theaet., 152a) that led ultimately, Plato believed, to the loss of unity and the rise of relativism in states.

    https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=%22plato+believed%2C+to+the+loss+of+unity+and+the+rise+of+relativism+in+states.%22

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