The crass stupidity of the Trump regime has no limits.
PLATO IS PHILOSOPHY
"Alfred North Whitehead is often (mis-) quoted as saying that all philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato.
I was asked the other day whether this is a fair assessment, or an exaggeration.
Well, the first thing to note is what ANW actually said :
"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. I do not mean the systematic scheme of thought which scholars have doubtfully extracted from his writings. I allude to the wealth of general ideas scattered through them."
" Plato so totally set the agenda for asking BIG questions about "how things, in the most general sense, hang together, in the most general sense" (Wilfrid Sellars) that at least in the West even mutually distant traditions (heirs of Martin Heidegger vs heirs of Bertrand Russell, say) deal centrally with problems he was the first to set out - in epistemology, metaphysics, logic, ethics and politics, and more. Plato's work is, as he says in the same passage, "an inexhaustible mine of suggestion."