• burgersc12
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    2 hours ago

    Even if all the scholars think it wasn’t literal doesn’t mean he didn’t mean it literally, that could just be how we have been interpreting it

    • Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Plato wasn’t writing in some long-dead obscure language that we only have vague translations of, it was Greek. It’s not a matter of interpretation.