Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) famously said, “The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.” Within Plato’s writings, many of the core ideas and questions in philosophical thought began, including questions about reality, knowledge, justice, virtue, and so on.
stumbled on this while doing some research for an upcoming post of my own. loved it!
Cool! I’ll look for it.