Plato
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To sum up: From the Platonic perspective, the fundamentals of existence are the archetypal Ideas, which constitute the intangible substrate of all that is tangible. The true structure of the world is revealed not by the senses, but by the intellect, which in its highest state has direct access to the Ideas governing reality.
Richard Tarnas • Passion of the Western Mind
CHAPTER XIV Plato’s Utopia
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
Comme l’a dit le philosophe et mathématicien anglais Alfred North Whitehead, la philosophie occidentale n’est rien d’autre qu’une « série de notes sur l’œuvre de Platon23 ». De la nature à l’amour en passant par les concepts de vérité ou de vertu, Platon a été le premier à expliquer en détail les grands sujets de philosophie. Il a aussi été le prem
... See moreMark Manson • Tout est foutu: Un livre sur l'espoir (French Edition)
Plato and his students were not narrow specialists, not pedants, not ideologues; they were rather propelled to dispute, to discover, everything there was to know, and to test the boundaries of knowing itself.