The Cave and the Light; Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization by Arthur Herman

The Cave and the Light; Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization

Arthur Herman

704 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The two men disagreed on the fundamental purpose of the philosophy. For Plato, the image of the cave summed up man’s destined path, emerging from the darkness of material existence to the light of a higher and more spiritual truth. Aristotle thou...

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