/lit/ - Literature

>>1527921
>if anything science reveals nothing but deviations from order
Deviations from the perfect intelligible realities these material manifestations participate in. Read more Plato.

Plato
Definitely Plato

We know little of Plato the man and everything we need of Plato the philosopher. His name
appears in the dialogues only three times, twice connected with Socrates’ trial and once with the day
of his death. That is all. But to say that we know everything we need to know of Plato the philosopher
is misleading because, according to Plato himself, philosophy is not to be qualified by anybody’s
name. It deals with what is universal and eternal. One reason why Plato never appears as a character
in his own dialogues is that he does not want to become, as it were, the subject-matter. This accords
with the famous remark that Socrates can be refuted but not the logos.

Calling "religion" stupid is like calling "history" or "politics" or "literature stupid.