Prison of the Mind: Plato's Allegory of the Cave

Classical Wisdom Litterae, Issue 73, May 2022

Aug 5, 2022

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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 …

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