BERTRAND RUSSELL

Western philosophy "consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." It is Plato, then, who is credited with being the founder of the Western intellectual tradition and in his honour we coin such terms as 'academic' and 'academia' after the Academy, the school founded by Plato a few years after the death of Socrates. In that Acad emy Plato taught ... ................
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