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Key takeaways from Was Plato a mythmaker or the mythbuster of Western thought?

Some see Plato as a pure rationalist, others as a fantastical mythmaker. His deft use of stories tells a more complex tale

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Plato’s myths tend to be stylistically differentiated from the closely argued investigations that make up the rest of his dialogues.

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