Vague memories of Plato, except that I think he had some very strong prejudices, so did Socrates - neither for instance thought much of women. And that prejudice found its way into their philosophy.
Course my own biases figure into that. I find it interesting though that American public schools and basic philosophy courses teach mainly Plato, Socrates, Aristotle and a smattering of Lock, but not many of the others. I noticed that in my own education. In which case we are taught to buy Plato's view of truth - that is ingrained in us. How would we think if the view we were taught were say another philosopher's such as Focault or Confucious or one of the Eastern philosophers? Our mind set to a degree is formed by our education.
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Date: 2005-11-14 01:23 pm (UTC)Course my own biases figure into that. I find it interesting though that American public schools and basic philosophy courses teach mainly Plato, Socrates, Aristotle and a smattering of Lock, but not many of the others. I noticed that in my own education. In which case we are taught to buy Plato's view of truth - that is ingrained in us. How would we think if the view we were taught were say another philosopher's such as Focault or Confucious or one of the Eastern philosophers? Our mind set to a degree is formed by our education.