Ancient Greek philosophy might be the single greatest cultural achievement in Western Civilization.
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Why?
Darwin explained the origins of all adaptive complexity, diversity, and ornamentation in the world, through natural selection & sexual selection, and his explanation has held up for 160 years of intensive research. What exactly did Plato explain?
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Why the Greeks executed Socrates?
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*oddly specific*
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He explained that if we appeal to authority for guidance, moral or otherwise, we must already be using our *own* judgement — to judge that that supposed authority is authoritative.
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He asked questions that still trouble us.
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Why is explanation, or duration of explanation, the measure of ‘achievement’ in the West. Elon musk is one of the most influential persons of our time, but not in the world of explanations. Similarly, Plato’s contribution to thought is not primarily to explain things.
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Socrates asked what 'explanation' was. Plato got half an answer. And his student Aristotle finshed it.
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That truth was non-evident ang geometrical in nature, and that influenced Descartes, Kepler, Newton and Einstein.
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Modus tollens
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