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He spent one career trying to derive all of mathematics from pure logic, and a second insisting that reality itself is made of events and relations rather than fixed, static things.
He saw a world behind the world. The Forms are real; what we see are shadows.
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“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”
“It is the business of the future to be dangerous.”
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
Key Moments
1913
Completes Principia Mathematica with Russell
1924
Begins a second career at Harvard
c. 428 BCE
Born in Athens
c. 408 BCE
Meeting Socrates
399 BCE
Death of Socrates
c. 388 BCE
First Voyage to Syracuse
Works
Process and Reality
Apology
Crito
Euthyphro
Protagoras
Symposium
Meno
Phaedo
Gorgias
Republic
Phaedrus
Theaetetus