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Philosopher and mathematician A. N. Whitehead once claimed that “the safest general characterization of European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.” It is difficult to disagree with him. Plato wrote seminal works on ethics, political theory, morality, epistemology, and metaphysics. His concept of forms went on to have a great influence on Christian...

Ἀληθῆ λέγεις. Ἀλλʼ, ἦν δʼ ἐγώ, μήτε τοῦτο οἰώμεθα, ὁ γὰρ λόγος οὐκ [B] ἐάσει, μήτε γε αὖ τῇ ἀληθεστάτῃ φύσει τοιοῦτον εἶναι ψυχήν, ὥστε πολλῆς ποικιλίας καὶ ἀνομοιότητός τε καὶ διαφορᾶς γέμειν αὐτὸ πρὸς αὑτό. Πῶς λέγεις; ἔφη. Οὐ ῥᾴδιον, ἦν δʼ ἐγώ, ἀΐδιον εἶναι σύνθετόν τε ἐκ πολλῶν καὶ μὴ τῇ καλλίστῃ κεχρημένον συνθέσει, ὡς νῦν ἡμῖν ἐφάνη ἡ ψυχή. Οὔκουν εἰκός γε. Ὅτι μὲν τοίνυν ἀθάνατον ψυχή, καὶ ὁ ἄρτι
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