Is Plato the biggest hack?

Is Plato the biggest hack?

I'm an intellectual and well-versed in the history of Western Thought and Idea, and it feels like Whitehead's observation "all of western philosophy is a footnote to Plato" would be more accurately formulated as "all of western philosophy is a continuous BTFOing of Plato."

Plato is like the pseud who comes on Veeky Forums to samefag his own arguments and false flag his "opponents." By fortuitous happenstance Plato's writings survived in greater volume and quantity than other more insightful and coherent thinkers.

Now, Plato is essentially something for people who aren't intellectuals to read on the subway, and even Black folk have started to realize this. When are we going to collectively stop focusing our philosophical efforts on BTFOing the non-entity that is Plato and instead start spending our time and effort on more worthwhile endeavours?

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I'm starting a discussion group where we disavow all Platonic influences and create a new philosophical movement. It will likely become one of the top 3 (conservative estimate) most important philosophical movements of the century, and you have a chance to be there at the inception. Leave an e-mail if you're interested. Happy to give more details.

>who is Nietzsche

Ok, firstly the tone of your post is very arrogant and provides no information.
Secondly, those ideas already exist;
Now, I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt; but you must present any critique of any of Plato's ideas. Otherwise this will just be a vague circlejerk of not liking Plato

starting a group to disavow all Platonic influences would be a proof to Whitehead's statement. Everything that comes from sheer negation of an idea will eventually come to that idea. That's why Plato's so influencial: because it's easy to not agree with him. But if you base your philosophy on refuting Plato's points, then you're stuck in a horizon of thought that's determined by him. Negative predicate alpha is closest predicat of all predicates to predicate alpha.

Platonic realism is still one of the most widely held notions in the field of mathematics :^)

false

t. doctoral candidate in math at a top 5 uni

Cool, yet another shitpost.

spoiler: all philposts are shitposts

philposters need to LEAVE this board and fuck off to their containment

what are numbers representing then?

oh look another Marxist