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What was his endgame?

Plato is the only turning point in world history. If one thought that all this incalculable sum of energy is not employed in the service of knowledge, then the instinctive desire to live would probably have been so weakened in the general wars of annihilation that suicide would have become a general habit, and perhaps the people might have experienced the final remnant of a sense of duty when they strangle their parents and friends.

>Post books that explore what would have happened if Plato had not existed

So Plato basically solved philosophy and the only thing left for us is to do science and with it improve technology, engineering, medicine and society in general?.

Humanities arranged by purity.

Can you order the following humanities by purity?.

Classics

History

Language

Literature

Religion

Art

what would he had thought about mutts?

>>18686167
>>18686254
Greek archetype of a philosopher: beard, flowing hair, humble clothing. It's also why Jesus is depicted with long hair and a beard.

>>17333717
Per the Symposium it's meant to be the lowest rung on a step ladder to the Pure Idea of Love. By his old age, he had completely repudiated homosexuality as "the ugliest of unholy things".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_ancient_Greece#Scholarship_and_controversy

>>10712309
>at that point just abandon mathematics and go full metaphysics

Welcome to ascended tier