Tuesday, July 31, 2018

New comment by Tomte in "How to read Plato (1995)"

> I'd already run into them in other contexts.

But that‘s exactly the point behind the footnotes remark that you seem to dislike.

Plato owned philosophy so completely that everyone, even centuries later, still referenced him.

You coming across ideas first via some more recent source does not invalidate him any more than Wordpress invalidates the importance of Movable Type.

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