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>>16970561
This is the only "chart" you need

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>>16791805
This is the only 'chart' you need

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The only "chart" you need

Really, another thread about the dullest philosopher in the history of Western philosophy? Seriously each dialogue following the corrupter of the youth and his interlocutors from Athens as they discuss metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the constant unfounded assumptions, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of rigor and ineffective use of logic, all to make wisdom foolish, to make intellectualism seem absurd.

Perhaps the die was cast when Plato vetoed the idea of actually looking around the fucking world to see if his ideas made any sense; he made sure the dialogues would never be mistaken for a work of philosophy that had any real use to anybody, just ridiculously profitable source material for Christian 'theologians.' The Platonic dialogues might be pseudo-Christian (or not), but they're certainly pseudo-Aristotelian in their refusal of precision, evidence, and utility. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>a-at least the questions were good though
"No!"
The points of discussion are dreadful; the answers were terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character considered something concrete, the author wrote instead that the character "contemplated an image the eternal Forms."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Plato's mind is so governed by abstractions and unverifiable superstition that he has no other style of thinking. Later I read a lavish, loving review of the dialgoues by the same Saint Augustine. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Plato at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Saint Augustine." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read Platonic philosophy you are, in fact, trained to read Augustinianism.

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>>16432965
Based platoposter

>>16425654
Unironically what the fuck are you on about? Most pagan intellectuals did not believe in the popular gods as anything but symbols or aspects of the greater divinity (if they were inclined in that direction). Literally believing in them is Julian the Apostate tier faggotry. Besides, de doctrina Christiani is worth reading for its semiotics alone