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To: Little Joe who wrote (46373)	6/20/2013 11:13:51 AM
From: koan	Respond to of 85487

Plato set up the first university in the Western world and helped lay the foundations of Western philosophy. So maybe it isn't that simple, as that seems a bit more important, that Plato lay the foundations for modern thought. PS: I don't think too many think about Plato's ideas on economics. Litlle Joe: <<Plato is a hero to most liberals precisely because he believed in a controlled top down economy. It is just that simple. lj "He was also a mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy and science. [4] In the words of A. N. Whitehead: