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Episode 36·plato

Plato's Parmenides and Metaphysics

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Plato . Platon . Platonis Dialogi

Plato · 1150 · Greek · 508 pages

This collection captures the urgent, living spirit of Socratic inquiry at its most potent. Plato argues that we must abandon the distractions of the physical realm to grasp eternal truths. He warns that writing creates a dangerous illusion of wisdom by substituting memorized facts for internal under

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