Plato was the first to... «Plato: A Very Short Introduction»
innashpitzberg15 июля 2013Plato was the first to institutionalize philosophy (giving us the word ‘Academy’) and to think of it as requiring both a systematic pursuit of truth and a radical dependence on argument, with others and with oneself. It is not surprising that he left a divided legacy of dogmatists and sceptical enquirers, or that his dialogues have lent themselves, over two thousand years, to the most divergent interpretations. For in the end, his deepest message is not that we should believe in Forms, or the importance of virtue, but that we should engage with him, and with our own contemporaries, in aspiring to understand these matters.
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