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System Failure

Plato's Revenge

Why Platonism Keeps Reemerging During Times of Crisis

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Nathan Knopp
Jul 15, 2024
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Overview

The great philosophical controversy preoccupying humanity is whether our minds exist within a broader material world, or whether the material world exists within our minds. The latter position was most famously elaborated by the Greek philosopher Plato in the 4th Century BC.

But the former position is universally favored by the political and eco…

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