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(56,912 posts) Mon Dec 9, 2013, 11:59 AM Dec 2013

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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

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

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Mon Dec 9, 2013, 12:04 PM

Dec 2013

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

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Tuesday Afternoon

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2. Tis the Exception that makes the Rule.

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Mon Dec 9, 2013, 12:07 PM

Dec 2013

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Sanity Claws

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3. That sounds like a bogus quote

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Mon Dec 9, 2013, 04:39 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.

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dixiegrrrrl

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

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Mon Dec 9, 2013, 05:05 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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