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Name one useful idea Plato had. 2016-08-30 11:26:54 Post No. 1622091
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>Plato
>le epik allegory cave man
>"There is this magical invisible world that you can't see that is better than what you know. I know all about it and can tell you. :^) It's invisible though!!! So don't ask too many questions!"
>the wrong left-turn of philosophy
>advocated totalitarian dictatorship that's somehow incorruptible(?) because reasons
>"no there is no way it will become evil and bad because the people will be shielded from all bad influences and not permitted any freedoms. this is ethical because I say so and i am a philosopher and all the people running things will be philosophers. :^)"
Most overrated pile of shit ever shat out by Western civilization.
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I'm pretty sure Plato shat out Western civilisation rather than the reverse.
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>>1622091
My English professor loved wanking Plato
Overrated as fuck
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>>1622091
Daily reminder that all philosophy is just footnotes to Plato
your favourite philosophers BTFO
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ebin thread, mate.
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>>1622091
>Three Class(Producer, Priest, Warrior)
>Civic virtue like ruthlessness towards of the enemies and gentleness towards of fellow citizens
>The One
>The Soul of the World
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>>1622155
Still me
>Noble lie
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yeah I'd like to see where the entire Western Canon would be without this motherfucker going all hardcore on perfect forms and abstract concepts like truth, justice, courage ,freedom and love.
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>>1622197
like africans and asians where you have a comfy life just because you avoid wageslavery
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>>1622091
he was a big guy
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>>1622285
do you honestly believe that?
are you being ironic?
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That the best life involves a mixture of pleasure and knowledge
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>>1622299
there is no reason to expect we would be different from asians and africans before those had contacts with white men
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>>1622308
Well I don't know about you but I sure do wish we were more like Africa. Thanks for nothing, Plato.
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>>1622308
I was referring to the use of your term "comfy"
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>philosophy
>useful
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>>1622466
that pic looks so 2009 fuckin hell
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>>1622468
(it's 2008, retard)
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>>1622468
>>1622499
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Tips philosophical fedora
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>>1622091
>advocated totalitarian dictatorship that's somehow incorruptible(?) because reasons
>"no there is no way it will become evil and bad because the people will be shielded from all bad influences and not permitted any freedoms. this is ethical because I say so and i am a philosopher and all the people running things will be philosophers. :^)"
sounds suspiciously like Karl Marx, why do all philosophers end up megalomaniacs?
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>>1622540
People can tell you didn't read it. Just thought I'd let you know.
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>>1622091
>adding "le epik" in front of something and acting like it's legitimate criticism
>implying Plato didn't thoroughly dissect and point out the fatal flaws in his own theory of forms better than a neckbeard on a Laotian needlepoint harem can
>splitting political thought from over 2000 fucking years ago into the modern left/right dichotomy
>implying he was actually advocating totalitarianism and not providing conjecture about how a society that valued justice above all else would be run
>completely missing the point of the metaphor of the republic
>dismissing the influence of his ideas based on nothing but intentionally misleading interpretations and misunderstandings of his works
consider me succesfully b8d OP. well done. might save this for future memeing.
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