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Plato got virtually everything wrong (2018)

Big brain, big mistakes

But on virtually every point that mattered he was disastrously wrong, and his errors entrenched fundamental mistakes that would hamper philosophy and intellectual culture forever more. Plato’s argument that the soul could survive the death of the body established a dualistic model of mind and matter that still hampers our thinking today. It was the Platonic influence on Christianity that led too many in the religion to lose sight of the Gospel accounts of a physical resurrection and to think of the soul as superior to and separate from the body.

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