Category: Rethinking Plato
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Plato’s Influence on Our World
Reading Time: 4 minutesPlato has ruled the world for 2500 years through his lasting influence on philosophy, politics, and religion. It’s time we paid attention to Plato’s influence on our world.
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Why Worry About Same-Sex Marriage and Trans-ideologies?
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhy worry about same-sex marriage and trans-ideologies? This article is not a rejection of same-sex partners and trans people. It’s a request for the missing narrative about hetrosexual relations and how they affect social organization. Currently it is being drowned out by a particular version of a patriarchal narrative. It is more…
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Plato Has Ruled the World for 2500 Years
Reading Time: 4 minutesPlato has ruled the world for 2500 years through his lasting influence on philosophy, politics, and religion. It’s time we paid attention to what he actually said. He is considered an authority on politics, even though in his lifetime, his writings were not compatible with the politics of his home country, Athens.…
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Plato’s War on Women
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe foundation of the ancient Greeks’ project for civilization was their determination to turn the female sex into a subject population. But there were unintended consequences. Plato’s war on women helped bring about the end of monarchy. Philo There is evidence that the Greeks were toying with the idea of subjecting women…
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Expunge Plato and Aristotle from History
Reading Time: 5 minutesI’m forcing myself to read The Republic. It’s painful. It is disturbing that apologists have been accepting Plato’s lies without hesitation for 2500 years and they would like to continue for another 2500 years. In my opinion, we should expunge Plato and his student Aristotle from history. The Republic In this article…
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Plato’s Iron Fist in the Soviet Union
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve been saying that we need to reexamine the influence of the ideas of Plato and Aristotle in politics and religion. As it happens, that conversation is already underway. The following discussion is based on an article about Plato’s influence in Russia. Those who like to divide Russian and Western thought may…