David Stove on Plato worship

"Some neo-Platonists worshipped [Plato] as a God. They might easily have chosen a worse man to worship. It is even possible that the worship of Plato is the highest point to which religion has ever risen. .. Plato's honesty, while not unblemished, was certainly far in advance of that of the average god. Still, to worship him was also, surely, a low point in the history of philosophy."
- David Stove, The Plato Cult and Other Philosophical Follies




Comments

Trackback

Trackback URL: http://bearstrong.net/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/1727

Post a comment

Comments on posts from the old Movable Type blog has been disabled.