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the critic • The death of Ideals
Plato begins by deciding that the citizens are to be divided into three classes: the common people, the soldiers, and the guardians. The last, alone, are to have political power.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
PLATO’S most important dialogue, the Republic, consists, broadly, of three parts. The first (to near the end of Book V) consists in the construction of an ideal commonwealth; it is the earliest of Utopias.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
Plato, as we’ve just seen, had set out his ethical system whereby such ethical notions as goodness, virtue and justice were identified as far-off, objective concepts, known to us only by their pale imitations that we are able to perceive here on Earth. No amount of human introspection could bring us closer to these eternal truths; instead, it was t
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Plato’s solution was his famous Theory of Forms. He concluded that our higher minds must be tethered to some transcendent plane of superreality, where fixed, stable ideas (Forms with a capital F) exist in timeless perfection.