In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.
In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.
I guess hazing has been around since Plato's time, but it does not make it right. It is distasteful to me.
What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
Plato's system was . . . rent by an irreconcilable dualism of mind and body, spirit and matter, good and evil, with all of his great ideas unable to bridge this gulf. He could see the ideal, but he could not bring it to pass.
The history of Western philosophy is, after all, no more than a series of footnotes to Plato's philosophy.
The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.
Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work Plato's Republic, I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this
When I was an undergraduate at Princeton, freshman year, first term, I ended up in the course on Plato's Republic. That book just captivated me - not because of the answers, and the answers can be somewhat unsatisfying, but because of the questions, the way you went at it, the methods, the kinds of questions you could ask, the different answers you could get. That's why I'm still fascinated by that book.
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