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Tuesday Afternoon

(56,912 posts) Mon Dec 9, 2013, 12:59 PM Dec 2013

Play-doh

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Plato was a wise man...however there are exceptions to his statement.... Avalux Dec 2013 #1

Tis the Exception that makes the Rule. Tuesday Afternoon Dec 2013 #2

That sounds like a bogus quote Sanity Claws Dec 2013 #3

A perfect summation of his "The Cave." dixiegrrrrl Dec 2013 #4

Avalux

(35,015 posts)

1. Plato was a wise man...however there are exceptions to his statement....

Reply to Tuesday Afternoon (Original post)

Mon Dec 9, 2013, 01:04 PM

Dec 2013

Nelson Mandela is one of them....every now and then a human being is capable of great change.

Tuesday Afternoon

(56,912 posts)

2. Tis the Exception that makes the Rule.

Reply to Avalux (Reply #1)

Mon Dec 9, 2013, 01:07 PM

Dec 2013

Sanity Claws

(21,847 posts)

3. That sounds like a bogus quote

Reply to Tuesday Afternoon (Original post)

Mon Dec 9, 2013, 05:39 PM

Dec 2013

I just don't believe that Plato used the term "the masses." That whole concept would have been meaningless to the people of Athens in which he lived.

He did talk about shadows but not in this way.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

4. A perfect summation of his "The Cave."

Reply to Tuesday Afternoon (Original post)

Mon Dec 9, 2013, 06:05 PM

Dec 2013

Unfortunate that we humans have to learn and re-learn and re-re-learn basic human nature
thru the generations.

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