Plato: It is no idle question to wonder whether Plato, if he had stayed free of the Socratic spell, might not have found an eve

It is no idle question to wonder whether Plato, if he had stayed free of the Soc — Plato

It is no idle question to wonder whether Plato, if he had stayed free of the Socratic spell, might not have found an even higher type of the philosophical man, now lost to us forever.

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