plato

Thucydides, Aristotle, Plato, Xenophon: none a fan of democracy (and Plato to me seems actively dishonest).

Is a biopic about Plato mythologizing Plato?

It reminded me very much of Plato and the shadows in the cave.

This would put Google in the role of Plato then?

The Renaissance was built on the idea that 15th century hipsters could trust wisdom from the Classical age...they decided that Plato and Seneca and Thucydides and Vitruvius were not idiots.

But anyway, the thing that makes the hypothetical girl's actions compelling is that however out-of-line they might be, they are using the true-views coming from Plato - statement are either true or false, their truth or falsehood doesn't depend on circumstance, etc.

Have you seen Victor Rodych's entry at the plato.stanford.edu site entitled "Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics"?

For example, "Alain Badiou Is Making a Movie About Plato with Brad Pitt and Sean Connery" from 7 days ago is a movie about a guy.

"Plato v Aristotle: A clash between two ways of how to approach understanding of the world: mystical idealist and methodological, which would become scientific method." The article mentions this epic intellectual clash but fails to make the connection to today.

As Plato writes in the Crito: "Reflect now, Socrates," the laws might say, "that if what we say is true, you are not treating us rightly by planning to do what you are planning.

Philosophically the battle is over the Primacy of Consciousness (Plato/Kant) and the Primacy of Existence (Aristotle/Rand).

For a great book about the power of rhetoric, check out Plato's Gorgias.

I personally would like to get a magazine in the mail that contains excerpts of Plato, Socrates, and Marcus Aurelius, etc.