there’s no coming to grips with the history of philosophy or wisdom in the West without understanding him. He lies at the central nerve of our culture. Touch him, and indirectly you’re in touch with everything else. He’s said to have created the idea of metaphysics. It’s said that he invented logic: the basis of our reasoning, the foundation of every single discipline that has come into existence in the West. His influence on Plato was immense. There’s a well-known saying that the whole history of western philosophy is just a series of footnotes to Plato. With the same justification Plato’s
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