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Plato’s Dualism and the Priority of the Intelligible World
What is philosophy, when it’s not Socrates asking a lot of questions? It is the exercise of reason. We apply our intellectual powers to a problem and try to think it through. Plato, a student of Socrates, slowly moves into this realm of pure thinking. This shift in emphasis leads Plato to make an important discovery: there is a world that we see with our eyes and a world that we see with our minds. […]
An experiment with philosophy as a way of life
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