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‘Plato goes much further and much higher than Socrates, and it has been said that all subsequent philosophers are merely footnotes to his thought. He retains, however, the secret he learned from Socrates of always providing the fascinating spectacle of a thought in the process of being born. At the same time realist and mystic, he is the father of the New Academy and of Neoplatonism. He opened the way for the fathers of the Church and for Christian thought. The first in time of his famous disciples is, however, Aristotle.

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*– E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 20:285-6

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