Plato

Classical Wisdom Litterae

Alfred North Whitehead (the famous philosopher and mathematician reportedly summed up the Greek thinker’s accomplishments with the remark, “All of Western philosophy is but a footnote to Plato.”

Meanwhile, Aristotle, his best student, described Plato as a man “whom it is blasphemy in the base even to praise.”

He is a man, a towering figure in the history …