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[Anonymous No.22519914]

>Don't you think that the person who is likely to succeed in this attempt most perfectly is the one who approaches each object, as far as possible with the unaided intellect, without taking account of any sense of sight in his thinking, or dragging any other sense into his reckoning - the man who pursues the truth by applying his pure and unadulterated thought to the pure and unadulterated object,
cutting himself off as much as possible from his eyes and ears and virtually all the rest of his body, as an impediment which by its presence prevents the soul from attaining to truth and clear thinking? Is not this the person, Simmias, who will reach the goal of reality if anyone can?

[Anonymous No.22519921]

>>22519914
The person who actually did this was Democritus. He lived in caves and gouged his eyes out and was starving all the time. but because he realized materialism was correct, you don’t talk about him, and instead keep larping with your Plato and K*nt.

[Anonymous No.22519926]

>>22519921
Socrates did it as well by killing himself. Plato is really pro-death and anti-life.

[Anonymous No.22519930]

>>22519921
>he realized materialism was correct

>Only a couple of years after Boltzmann's death, Perrin's studies of colloidal suspensions (1908–1909), based on Einstein's theoretical studies of 1905, confirmed the values of the Avogadro constant and the Boltzmann constant, convincing the world that the tiny particles really exist.

[Anonymous No.22519933]

We have Plato at home.

[Anonymous No.22519935]

Hylics seething in this thread

[Anonymous No.22519937]

>>22519935
Make like your leader and kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.22519945]

>>22519926
>Plato is really pro-death and anti-life.

>But, as we hold, the true philosophers and they alone are always most eager to release the soul, and just this—the release and separation of the soul from the body—is their study, is it not?”

[Anonymous No.22519952]

>>22519945
No , it’s not. The study of the philosopher is truth and the nature and causes of things. Another L for Pl*to. Camus tier pseud.

[Anonymous No.22519955]

Mystery and reality must come together. The flesh redeemed. Not be separated or escaped.

[Anonymous No.22519960]

>>22519952
see>>22519914

[Anonymous No.22519961]

>>22519945
Yeah, that was the quote I was thinking of specifically.
>>22519952
Why don’t you release your soul like your leader wants of you?

[Anonymous No.22520137]

>>22519930
I just wandered in here, but what's the implication of this? I don't understand.

[Anonymous No.22520149]

>>22520137
Democritus was an early Greek philosopher who invented the concept of the atom and only in the 1800s was he proven correct. That is the poster’s point. The idea that everything is composed of little things you can’t even see was created by Democritus 3K years ago.

[Anonymous No.22520154]

>>22520137

[Anonymous No.22520165]

>>22520149
How'd he know all the way back then?

[Anonymous No.22520172]

>>22520165
"they" told him

[Anonymous No.22520174]

>>22520165
He guessed. I dunno. Pretty accurate for ancient times. He also predicted that planets could collide iirc. He thought some planets had two suns in their solar system and some had three. Pretty interesting stuff

https://bigthink.com/hard-science/ancient-physics-democritus-predicted-atom/

[Anonymous No.22520183]

>>22519914
Sauce?

[Anonymous No.22520187]

>>22520174
Compare that with Hegel who thought there could only be seven planets because le spirit decreed it