Christian Nill

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it became apparent something was missing. It took some time, but they eventually found it, perhaps not surprisingly, in the pages of Plato. The source was Plato’s dialogue Ion, and Percy Bysshe Shelley was the first to stumble on it one afternoon in Pisa, in the early winter of 1821.
The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
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