The Platonic Tradition faith occasionally disturbing

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The Platonic Tradition faith occasionally disturbingThe Platonic tradition in Western philosophy is not just one of many equally central traditions. It is so much the central one that the very existence and survival of Western civilization depends on it. It is like the Confucian tradition in Chinese culture, or the monotheistic tradition in religion, or the human rights tradition in politics. In the first of his eight lectures, Peter Kreeft defines Platonism and its Big Idea, the idea of a transcendent