He can discuss Plato as easily as he can Spanish philosopher Jos Ortega y Gasset.
Plato famously used the allegory of the cave to show people the limits of their thinking.
Plato wanted to help people become aware of the cave that constrains their thinking.
As Plato said, it depends on what the meaning of the word is is.
It amounted to a folksy philosophy that did not owe a lot to Plato.
Studying philosophy at the University of Chicago, and reading voraciously from Plato to Kant to H.
To some, this analysis of music and society may seem no less far-fetched than Plato's.
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Norris was more of an Irish Diogenes than a Plato, to cite, again, those wild, corrupting Greeks.
Alfred North Whitehead said that the European philosophical tradition is just a series of foot notes to Plato.
Plato, then driving for Seat, won two of the three races when the BTCC visited Snetterton in 2008.
He will quote you a nice point in the old authors, from Plato to Plautus and back again.
Karl Popper, a philosopher and ex-communist, criticised thinkers from Plato to Marx who valued the collective over the individual.
He says, however, that in a number of respects, Plato's reporting simply does not square with the geological evidence.
Plato also reports that volcanic activity sank Atlantis, but this may have been a case of embellishment, says Collina-Girard.
Wright even suggests that Wilde discovered his sexuality in the pages of Plato.
Taking a grim view of the Periclean era in Athens, Plato and Aristotle believed that democracy inevitably led to tyranny.
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We discovered that the Federal Government was honeycombed with newsletters, bulletins, reports, and studies on everything from NATO to Plato.
Progressive thinkers from Plato to Rousseau down to Marx sought to shrink the nuclear family in favor of the collective.
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After those came Plato, briefly, and finally Aristotle (whom she would later cite as her only influence, literary or otherwise).
Like Plato, Goethe or Berlin, writers and philosophers had long drifted in and out of public view, holding forth on life in general.
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But Plato told BBC Radio Norfolk he was hopeful of getting his second win of the season at the Norfolk circuit.
It took thousands of peasants beyond the Agora to support the work of one intellectual aristocrat such as Plato or Aristophanes.
Socrates and Plato were deeply interested in the ideas of sophists such as Protagoras and Gorgias because their ideas were profound.
As Plato noted speaking from another side of the spectrum that Seneca occupied the unexamined life is not worth living.
Advanced science instruments aboard future spacecraft, such as the proposed European Plato mission, could find many more Earth-mass planets orbiting Sun-like stars.
As Plato noted, nothing in the natural world is pure, including events.
Philosophers since Plato have penned millions of words attempting to define happiness.
Plato was funded through wealthy families, but now it is regular people.
For Plato, it literally did take a village to raise a child.
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Aristarchus Plateau is the primary location for these transient events, says Crotts, followed by the craters of Plato, Grimaldi, Kepler, Copernicus and Tycho.
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